PALESTINE TENSE
IMMINENT RENEWAL OF WAR FEARED ARABS AND JEWS WARNED N.Z.P.A.—Copyright Rec. 11 p.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 10. Palestine is tense due to a general fear of the imminent renewal of war said the United Nations mediator, Count Bernadotte, in his report to the Security Council to-day. He described Jerusalem as “ particularly tense" with skirmishing continuing. He had warned the Arabs and Jews that any attack beyond the limits of self-de-fence would be regarded as a truce violation.
The arrival in Tel-Aviv yesterday of Mr Pavel Yershov, the first Soviet Minister and first diplomatic representative of a major Power to take up a post in the State of' Israel, was marked with pro-Russian editorial comment and many Communist posters in the streets, says the Daily Telegraph correspondent in Tel-Aviv, according to a London- message. The Israeli Government’s official newspaper, Devar, stressed the Russian support of Israel during the diplomatic wrangles at Lake' Success, but it also recalled the persecution of Zionists in Russia.
Popular sentiment in Israel is undoubtedly overwhelmingly pro-Rus-sian, the correspondent adds, but Communism of the type practised in Russia has a strictly limited appeal. The Communist Party in Israel is small, numbering only a few hundred members, but it is extremely active.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26847, 11 August 1948, Page 5
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