The Palestine authorities were unpleasantly surprised by the resolutions adopted at the Zionist Congress, and feel that they represent an unanticipated turn towards extremism, the newspaper Hatzofe says today.
It reports that top officials of the Palestine Government closely followed the Congress developments, and the secretariat remained up the whole night during the closing session to await word on the political resolutions.
Warning that the recent cessation of terrorist activities was “not an armistice, but a pause to enable the Zionist Congress to adopt its resolutions without pressure,” the Irgun Zvai Leumi today demanded strict implementation of the decisions taken at Basle.
In a broadcast on its underground radio, the extremist organization said that if the resolutions adopted by the Congress are “followed up by a fight on all fronts,” they will be of decisive importance. However, if inaction should continue, “combined with incitement against the fighting forces,” then the “Basle resolutions will prove to be only a camouflage equivalent to surrender and the nation’s destruction,” the broadcast added.
At the same time that they “executed” 25-year-old Israel Levin for allegedly betraying their secrets to the authorities, the Stern Group broke the arm of another youth as punishment, it was learned today.
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