Members of the militant Brith Trumpeldor were suspected today of breaking windows of the Palestine office and disrupting a Zionist meeting in “revenge” for the suicide Sunday night of one of their comrades.
The incidents were seen as an outgrowth of dissatisfaction of right-wing Zionist Revisionists with the allocation of Palestine immigration certificates by Palestine offices, controlled by the Zionist Organization, in various European countries.
An inscription left at the Palestine office after the windows had been broken said the act was in revenge for the suicide of Puluschnitzky, a member of the Brith Trumpeldor, who, it was thought, might have taken his life after failing to obtain a Palestine immigration certificate.
The youths disrupted a meeting organized by the Palestine Foundation and did not permit Leib Jaffe, director of the fund, to proceed with an address. The police prohibited the address.
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