Dr. Abba Hillel Silver and Dr. Stephen S. Wise, joint chairman of the American Zionist Emergency Council, today called on President Truman to “insist on the inadmissibility” of the British Government’s intention to bring about the permanent separation of Transjordan from Palestine and its recognition as an independent state, it was announced by the Council.
In their message to President Truman, Dr. Silver and Dr. Wise assailed Britain’s contemplated action as “another unilateral revision of the Palestine Mandate and a new attempt to establish a fait accompli in disregard of Britain’s obligations toward the members of the League of Nations under the Mandate, toward the United States under the Anglo-American Convention of 1924, and toward the United Nations under Article Eighty of the Charter. This comes with particularly bad grace now that, at the request of the British Government, the United States and Britain are jointly examining the Palestine problem.”
“It is also an attempt on the part of Britain to set up another ostensibly independent state under British control in a territory now under international supervision, and to avoid placing under trusteeship an area which Britain seeks as her exclusive sphere of influence, the Zionist leaders declared.
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