A CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE CAMPAIGN

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 14050, 3 May 1946, Page 3

A CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE CAMPAIGN

lB COMMITTEE’S REACTION TO ANGLO-U.S. 1B COMMISSION’S REPORT

kGENCY SUB COMMITTEE TO DRAFT PLANS f FOR PROTEST MEETINGS I LrILISING YOUTH AND RESOURCES IN | lE stine against recommendations pjfei . ! London, May 2. i Reuter Report from Washington says that Mr Bevin has ■ red a note to Mr Byrnes in Paris asking* how far the States will go in helping Britain to carry out the recom- ' i tions Of the Palestine report, i! Jerusalem the Palestine Arab Higher Committee met five hours to day and considered- ways of opposthe recommendations. It appointed an emergency subrtitte r to draft plans for a civil disobedience campaign and mass meetings of protest throughout Palestine on May 10. V committee will also see about mobilising the Arab tund resources in Palestine against the report and setting ■Arab national fund to finance the Arab cause; 11 The Arab Higher Committee has sent a letter of protest * Attlee and is sending delegations to neighbouring Arab !; (s to enlist their support. Syrian Arabs have decided to stop work to-morrow in Lathy with the protest strike which has been called in |'a' Baghdad message says the Irak cabinet has decided to Le a strong protest with Britain and the United States 1 S { the Palestine report. ’ The Irak Prime Minister is ouoted as describing the jjlfstine report as aggressive, rash, inhuman and unjust to destine and the Arabs. According to a Cairo newspaper a general strike in all, u, countries has hern called for May 10. The ■ same newsier said it is proposed to hold a conference on the Palestine jJ e at which all Arab countries would be represented. In Cairo to-night the secretary-general of the Arab League <®nented on the British Government’s plans to find out what Siloit could expect from the United States in implementing the pine report. He said it was a very reasonable movement. Jewish newspapers in Palestine are indignant over Mr llitlee's statement that illegal armies must be disbanded before lie Palestine authorities could let another 100.000 Jewish Ljrrants into the country. One paper called the statement peal blackmail. A New York message savs that a member of the United nations Security Council declared to-night that there was a L big possibility that the Palestine question would be Light before the Security Council. A correspondent said that this spokesman ‘ declines to be ttifled and he did not say who would bring the matter Lore the council. He indicated, however, that action might he taken by one of the Arab states in the United Nations or if som'e member of the Security Council acting at the request tlJewish interests..