The political committee of the Mizrachi Federation of Great Britain and Ireland unanimously adopted a resolution expressing regret at David Ben Gurion’s statement favoring partition of Palestine, which he made at a session of the Jewish National Assembly in Palestine. The resolution calls upon the executive of the Jewish Agency to take steps to prevent its members from making public statements on policy without previous approval of the executive.
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