ARMED RESISTANCE IN PALESTINE
BRITISH PROTEST TO AMERICA
Incitement To Murder Soldiers
War Against Friendly Country
Nbav Yprk, May 20
Britain lias protested to the United States against the raising of funds in America, to finance armed resistance against British forces in Palestine, says the New York Times correspondent in Washington. * It is understood that the British Ambassador, Lord Inverchapel, has sent a letter to the State Department saying that a recent advertisement in America amounted to an incitement to murder British officials and soldiers in Palestine. He is believed to have referred to a newspaper advertisement published last Thursday in which the playwright Ben Hecht said that American Jews Avere gratified whenever Palestine terrorists blew up a British arsenal, wrecked a Biitish gaol, robbed a British bank or used their guns and bombs against “British betrayers a'hd invaders of their homeland.’’ Lord Inverchapel’s letter apparently made it clear that Britain is not asking for the suppression of this or any kind of advertisement, but it stated that Britain did not understand why Americans should contribute funds to carry on a war against a friendly country.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 14370, 21 May 1947, Page 3
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