SITUATION STILL TENSE

Chronicle (Levin), 9 July 1946, Page 5

SITUATION STILL TENSE

ARABS WILL RESIST JEWISH IMMIGRATION JKIU'SALFkW, July 7. Tho Arai) Iiigher Uominiuoe wishes lo assurc I'rosident Truman tliat it Ifnot within his power or junsdietion or within tliat of Atliors to determine the I'uturo of this Arab country, says a statement issued by the Higher Oontjnittee. The statement added that Palestine was not a pareel of nierehandise which could lie buught 011 Wall Street for dollars or bartered for Jewish votes. The Arabs were determiued to resist any further Jewish immigration. A niemlier of the coniniittee, Dr. II. F. Klialidi, saiil the Higher Committee was tneeting tomorrow to draft a Xote to demand the dissolution of the .Jewish Agency and threatening eivil disobedieuce if illegal immigration coutinued. "The verv fact that the British found it uecessary to occupy the agency tui 1 arrest tlie leaders is evidence enough for its dissolution," he said. I)r. Klialidi added that the failure ti lialt illegal inimig'ration would soon result in spontaneous inuss deinoustra timis by the Arabs, for which the eonxinittee would not accept responsibilitv. The Arab II ii»her ( 'oimnittee, after a three-hour meeting, deeided to appeal to the Palestine Uovernnient to release all Arab exiles and to bring arrest ed .1 e\\ i>h leaders before Military Courts.