DISARMING OF ILLEGAL ARMIES

Chronicle (Levin), 3 May 1946, Page 5

DISARMING OF ILLEGAL ARMIES

Rcf-eived Tlnirsdav, 7 p.m. NEW YORK, May 2. la M'sponse to President Truman's Mijij.nrt o f the recomiiuindatioiis on I'uIi-m ine, Britain has forwarded to the ' aue i Stxtes a communication slating jl'ii:, a, the illegal armies in Palestine t disarmed het'ore any attempt j . o send 100,000 .Tews into ,)ri siluation will arise which "ill e'danger securitv in the Middle Li>t. The communication suggosts that tbe illegal Jewish armies he disarined !t"il that the United .States share in timi disarxuiag. The New York Times' Washington 'yiiesjnmdent savs Washington offi-ials "nliciited that the Adniinistration is n°t prepared to assist in the disarma Kveu Mr. Attlee 's milder stateni*nl iu the Gommons, that he intended to asi-ertain to what extent America ltas prepared to share in the financial !lI1|l military responsibility for ad"liuistering Palestine, met with a cool rt-'-»'ption in Washington. Senators Bait aii(] l,a Pollette satd they thought the L'iled Btates had sotne responsibility "ut believed that United Nations was "'e proper agency to liandle the Palesl"je affairs. . ''he idea of using Anierican troops either to disarm illegal Jewish armies °.r to establish order if a new Pales:1,le inimigratioxi policy led to outljl'eaks, is generally opposed among Hcmhers of Congress. Nor is there any KriUMal support in Washington i'or

pennitting any large-scale imniigration of Jews into America. The eorrespon- 1 dent says it is concyded at Washington | that the disarm iug of the illegal Jewish ' forces would be a considerable undertaldng, perhaps leading to blood- j shed, but official eircles do not eonsider tliat the disarming of those forces is necessary as a prerequisite to the new imniigration policy.