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Palestine Jewish Community Hails U.N. Action in Barring Study of Independence

May 14, 1947
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The Yishuv has received “with satisfaction” the decision of the U.N. Political Committee to bar from the inquiry commission’s terms of reference the issue of independence, a Jewish Agency spokesman said today. The Committee’s action, he added, would enable the inquiry group to work in an objective atmosphere. He expressed regret, however, that the Political Committee had failed to specify that the probers were to visit the DP camps.

What was interpreted as the Arab reaction to the U.N. move was voiced by Darwish el Miqdadi, new director of the Arab office here. The Palestine Arabs will “eventually” be “led to resort to force” if Zionism “is imposed on them” by the U.S. or Britain, Miqdadi declared at his first press conference. He was detained in Iraq from 1941 to 1945 following his arrest after the unsuccessful pro-Nazi revolt there in 1941.

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