DENUNCIATION OF BRITAIN'S ACTION

Chronicle (Levin), 1 July 1946, Page 8

DENUNCIATION OF BRITAIN'S ACTION

Received Sundav, 7.30 p.m. LONDON, June 29. Britain 's aetion in arresting members of the Jewish Agency executive and trying by foree to render the Jewish community of Palestine defehceless, is a clear act of aggression against the Jewish people, says a statement issueti by the Jewish Agency for Palestine. To present this aetion as direeted • only against. a sinall group is as misleading as tlie statement that the Jewish Agency is involved ifi acts of violence, is false. The Agency canuot give up the right to self defence- and entrust its fate in the liands of an administration with "tlie ele'mentary duty ^of provid ing public. seeufity. ' ' This provoeative aetion is the eulminatiou of a policy of ; violating the obligations undertaken bv Britain under the maiidate. The eft'orts by Britain to divert public attention from her policy of barring I Palestine 's doors to tlie remnant of

I-litler's extermination campaign, is designed to destroy botli the achievemeuts and as'pirations of the Jewish people in Palestine and could only have been adopted to please the Mufti who once more has been allowed to escape to freedom. The Jewish people and leaders will not be intimidated and will jcontinue the struggle for the right to ienter their homeland and life as a free independent nation, in the Jewydj j style.