JEWISH SECRET ARMY

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24866, 4 May 1946, Page 7

JEWISH SECRET ARMY

Messrs Bartley Crum and Frank Buxton, both members of the British and American committee of inquiry, described as “shocking” Mr Attlee’s statement ’that the admittance of 100,000 Jews to Palestine should be conditional upon the disarming of the secret Jewish army. They said that the committee considered and rejected this very condition as “inhuman and impossible of fulfilment” A New York message says that heads of diplomatic missions in America representing Egypt Iraq, the Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Syria, after a conference regarding the Palestine committee’s proposals, jointly made this statement: “It is to be noted, inasmuch as the British and American committee is a dual committee, to the- exclusion of representatives of the Arab countries, which are most directly concerned, the committee’s report does not in any way bind the Arab countries and the Arab world. These countries have never failed to make it clear that they will oppose any new encroachment on their rights, such as the further intro-

duction of Jews into Palestine, with all the forces at their disposal." The correspondent of the "New York Times" comments that it appeared that the diplomats met without Specific instructions from their Governments. It was slid that they planned no representations to the State De* partment or further action of any kl ?he “New York Timer’ editorially says: “Fair-minded Americans agree that America cannot ask Britain to abrogate the White Paper which represents British policy in Palestine without assuming some responsibility for imposing a substitute policy involving grave risks of violence and disorder. After talking loudly and long about what should be done and joining an inquiry to find if the Ame-rican-proposed solution were practicable, America cannot well wssh her hands of her advice for action. The United States is too powerful to give advice and insist upon action unless she is ready to help in all ways necessary—by moral support, by financial assistance, even by a show of force —to put into effect the policy she demands.”