REJECTION OF CALL AGAINST TERRORISTS

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5322, 7 February 1947, Page 5

REJECTION OF CALL AGAINST TERRORISTS

(Press Assn-

JEWISH DECISION x

government demand is IfNWELCOME TO COUNCIL

-Rec. 9.30 p.m.)

JERUSALEM, Feb 6. The Jewish National Council has reached a decision which amounts to rejection of the Palestine Government's call for Jewish co-operation in. stampint>' out terrorism. Speaker after speaker declared that the Palestine Jews eould not accept the Government's demands and the meeting' instructed the Council's national executive to anstver accordingly. The chairniar said Jewish co-operation was in the hands of the British Government. They held the key to immigration and the peaceful solution of ihe Palestine problem. Tlu* -If-vish eommunity would not, as he pui it. turn police informers. Similar statements have been made on leatiots pnsted up in Tel Aviv by the Jewish ili'fence organisation, Ha'ganah. They claimed that the Jewish eommunity was trapped between British thieats and terrorist actiyities. A conespondent states that the Govevnnu-'ir scheme for evacuation of non-es>t*!iiial British civilians has eauseti alann among hoth Jews and Arabs. They feel that such a drfistic step wuiilci not have been taken unless the auth'irities feared further serious trouiile.

Decision Awaited After Breakdown With Arabs

LONDON, Fehruary (>. The Jewish agency leaders in London are mivting hourly as the erisisin the I'alestine situation approaches, says Reuter's diplomatie eorrespondent. They expect Mr. Bevin and Mr. ('reech-Jones to sumipon them any moment for a last talk before the British Government annou-nces its policy f'ollowing the break-down in Ihe Ihilish negotiations with the Arabs, wlio have suspended all eontacts with the British autliorities. Dr. Fadiiil Jamali, Leader of the Inu] tleleuat ion, said: "We have said our last v. or.l but we still hope that somethmg t'ruitful will conte from the eont'eivnce." He atlded that the only solution to the present deadloclc was the acceptauet of iiie Arab scheme. Otherwise theie ivas eertain to he trouble from the Arabs. He was deeply distressed that Zwfism in Ameriea was so ra tupai)!. The Arabs w.ere ready to liquidate Jewish (errorism and lcnew how to do it. They would not he as lenient * as the British. The oiily solution was to stop Jewish iiiitiiiuration immediately, but there e.as no reason, if Zionism gave up its pu!i:k*al aspirations, why Jews and Ara >." eould not live amieably togethei. "The .Ii'ws are copying the Nazi and Japanese wartime methods and there aic Zioiiist sehools in Ameriea tu train. ti-i rui ist leaders," he said.