BRITISH PLEA FOR TRUCE NOT YET ACCEPTABLE
(Received April 4, 7.40 p.m.) JERUSALEM, April 4.
Making a broadcast appeal for a. truce, the High Commissioner, General Cunningham, said that the Palestine Government was ready to discuss with Arab and Jewish civil and military leaders details for a “cease fire” agreement. He said: “I ask them to consider) fully what possible good can come from continued violence. This Government is only remaining with you a short time, longer. I am anxious, during that period, to do all in my power to negotiate and maintain a cease fire agreement.” The Secretary of the Arab League Higher Committee, Hussein Khalidi, said: “An armistice would not serve a useful purpose unless the United Nations plan of partition is scrapped, and the Zionists renounce their ambitions for the establishment of a Jewish State of Palestine.”
The Jewish Agency declared that an acceptance, by all parties, of the United Nations partition resolution should precede any preliminary discussions for a truce.
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Grey River Argus, 5 April 1948, Page 3
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