Divine assistance was invoked today by the Orthodox Jews of this all-Jewish city to get the British government to rescind the recently issued White Paper. Praying in rotating day and night groups, a committee of Orthodox Jews is sitting in the main synagogue here reciting psalms and praying that the White Paper be torn up.
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