The Zionist Actions Committee, which was scheduled to convene here next week, will probably not meet until the end of April, and the session is likely to be held in New York, it was learned here today.
A delegation of the presidium of the Actions Committee appeared before the meeting of the Jewish Agency here today and requested that the Committee session be adopted before Passover, which begins on April 9, although the #### agreed to consider their request, it is improbable that it will be #### while, several members of the Committee, who were not imformed of the ## arrived today from the U.S. They included Mrs. David de Sola Pool; Mrs. ## Silverman, Elishu Stons and Dr. Samuel Margoshes.
UNABLE TO PROVE TERRORIST CHARGES AGAINST 78 SEIZED DURING HARTTEL LAW
Seventy-eight Jews picked up by the police and military authorities as “terrorists” during the two-week period of martial law were today sentenced without a trial to one month’s imprisonment because the police could not prove that they were members of an extremist group. One of the prisoners, Itzhak Mizrachi, 22, is on a hunger strike, demanding his release.
In a special communique issued a week ago the government cited the capture of the 78 men as justification for the introduction of military rule. The announcement listed 15 of the detainees as Sternists, 12 as members of the Irgun Zvai Leumi and the remaining 51 as “connected with terrorism.”
The secretariat of the Palestine Communist Party today outlined its national program at a press conference in the Palestine Information Office which the sponsored by “the Middle East Press Association.” It called for abrogation of the British mandate, evacuation of British troops from the country, United Nation assistance to establish Palestine independence under a democratic regime, and full equality of national and civic rights for Jews and Arabs.
The future Palestinian state cannot be enclusively Jewish or Arab, the secretariat said, but it must guarantee freedom of conscience, speech, organization and press. It attacked the Zionist leadership’s “pro-imperialist policy” and demanded the serapping of the partition plan. It opposed the demand for full Jewish immigration, declaring: “Immigration does not solve any national problems it will not solve the Jewish problem.” The secretarist’s statement concluded with a call for “full Jewish-Arab cooperation on a democratic basis.”
Albert Hirahk##, an American free lance newspaperman, and Jacques Meyer, a French correspondent, who accompanied some 600 visaless immigrants to Palestine aboard the blockade runner Ben Hecht were today expelled from the country. Henristta Goldenberg, who also came on the Ben Hecht to join her flance in Tel Aviv, remains in jail at Acre while the authorities decide her case.
It is learned that negotiations between the Jewish Agency and the World Agudas Israel on cooperation in political matters is nearing a conclusion. Under the agreement, the Agudah would maintain “national discipline” on political desisions but would maintain its own educational and colonization program. For these purposes the Agency has agreed to allot the Agudah up to $175,000 annually and will also increase the proportion of immigration certificates it allocates to the religious organization.
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