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APPEAL TO BRITISH
By Jewish Leader
No Likelihood of
Civil War
LONDON,. Jaly » (AJLP.).-"I
appeal to the Brittan awpfc and
Guieiument itayyar Baad," aM
the PresVkaf el the Jewhh Agency
fer ; Palestine (Dr. Chana Weh
nuuta) at a Pren caaference, "an*
not 4»; the wrang yea have done as.
Do Mt keep behind the bais
then wa», when yea stood alone,
. helped ye« ta the straggle for- sar
TtraL . Oin is aa tess a straggle, let .
my people ga"
Dr. Weizmann said that the, primary
cause of the happenings lay not with
the Jews but those who allowed the:
situation to drift. He did not think any
civil war would occur -in Palestine,
mainly because the Arabs had shown In
the T»st that they would'not fight for
similar issues.
j v Questioned about Mr. Ernest Bevin's
statement, he said if he'was to select a
Foreign Secretary he would have looked'
to other quarters. The British Govern-
ment had a wonderful chance to bring
the Jews and Arabs together, why didn't
they take it. God alone knew that
Haganah had done useful defence work
until the last few months. He could not
break up Haganah, and supposed it
would continue, whatever he said, be
causé it was part of the Jewish com-
munity. Did Mr. Attlee ask himself why
the Haganah, whose services until after
the war he commended, had changed in
his eyes? It' had changed from dis-
appointment to despair after Mr. Attlee's
statement attaching impossible condition
to ¡ implementing the British-American
Commission's report." j
USE REMAINING INFLUENCE. . ? '
, Dr. Weizmann-said that they desired
and-were determined, to use their r&*
máining. influence. . He was the'' last to
justify the breaking of the law but even;
in the administration of law account
was taken of the extenuating circum-
stances. They had been reminded that
Britain's might was adequate to bomb
Tel Aviv to rubble in an hour and lay
the settlements waste in a night. .He
could not believe that the British
Government would use might that way.
If it did the Jews would build up and
recreate what had been destroyed. There
were many Jewish people and much
public opinion everywhere favouring, the
partition of Palestine into separate
Jewish and Arab states. This must not
be rejected as a possible solutidn.
FDZMER MEASURES. '
Britain would be justified in taking
firmer measures against the Jews, said
the, secretary of the Arab League (Dr.
Assam Bey), interviewed by Renter's
Cairo correspondent.
Dr. Assam said a sacttorl of the Jews
appeared to want to achieve aims by
violence, creating a state of terrorism,
This policy, now w >'ttltimately^-%ou]d
not interest the-Jews. ' , . -
.?!. Dr. * Assam -denied that the Arab
League aided the escape of" the Mufti
to'Jerusalem iram.France/ -
JEWS WILDLY CHEER.
Thirteen hundred members of the
Merseyside Jewish, community cheered
wildly for several minutes at a Liver-
pool meeting last night when the
newly-elected Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv,
arriving straight from the House , ol
Commons conference in London, gave
them'the first news of thé release from
custody in, Palestine of members oJ
the'executive of the Jewish Agency.
The Rabbi added no further infor-
mation, but hoped that the news wa!
the forerunner of the release of all
Jewish' leaders detained in receñí
weeks.
, The Press Association says there ii
no confirmation in official quarters it
London of the Rabbi's announcemen
about the release of the Jewish Agency
executives.
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