The British Government is determined to eliminate the Jewish Agency, destroy the Haganah and establish in Palestine “a so-called democratic commonwealth, which in reality will be an Arab state, the head of which will be the notorious Grand Mufti,” it was charged here last night by Bartley Crum, a member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine.
Mr. Crum asserted that the basis for his charges is information “furnished to me during the course of my membership on the Anglo-American inquiry committee. It was repeatedly suggested to us by British members of the committee, and by representatives of the British Foreign Office that the Jewish Agency be eliminated,” he declared.
President Truman was urged in a wire from Mr. Crum to refuse to cooperate any further with the British Government on Palestine “so long as Britain persists in its plot to destroy the Jewish national home.” The President was also asked to file charges against Britain before the World Court on charges of violating the Anglo-American convention on Palestine signed in 1924.
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