The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-27
GREAT BRITAIN IS
 SCORED BY JEWS

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 tration. This interim government, it was said, would be succeeded oy d Palestine state linked by alliance with Great Britain.
 Dominated By Arabs
 Assurances from the British gov ernment that Jewish minorities m Palestine would be safeguarded was accepted by Jews only as Q tacit notice that the state would be domi- mated by the Arabs.
 The executives of the Jewish agency met all day yesterday, con- sidering action, and decided 70 recommend that the Jewish deie- gates to the Palestine conference reject the plan summarily.
 A memorandum was drafted as- serting that the British plan pro- yided no basis for further discus- sion.
 The executives proposed to ask approval of this memorandum at a meeting this morning of a joint committee of zionists and non Zionists which advises the Jewisn delegation.
 Then, their anger mounting, the Jewish representatives decided to hoycott the luncheon which the government arranged in their hon. or today - the first function Tor Jews since the conference opened Malcolm Macdonald, British colo nial secretary and chiet britisn delegate, was to be host. .l
 Arabs, realizing the strength or their present situation, said little but there were indications that they were prepared to accept the British plan.
 Many Arabs Killed
 Gaifa, Palestine, Feb. T-(UP)-l Tnirty-two Arabs were killed and 30 Arabs and two Jews were wounded today in bombings and shootings here, at Jerusalem and on nign- ways.
 An the incidents were interpreted a smarking the Jewish reaction from yesterdays nationwide Arab svictory" celebrations, based on re- ports from London that Great Britain proposed to set up an Axab-dominated state in Palestine.
 Twsnty-four were killed, and Al, including the two Jews, were wounded by the explosion of bombs here, one in the market square, the other near the railroad station.
 Three Arabs were killed and six wounded by c bomb which explod- cd in the vegetable market in the old city quarter of Jerusalem, Arab shopkeepers in the quarter closd their shops in protest against Jewish outrages."
 One Arab was shot dead in an- other quarter of Jerusalem, and Arab busses in Jersalem were fired upon.
 One Arab was shot dead at Jaffa.
 One Arab was killed and one was wounded when an Arab truck struck land mine near Tel-Aviv.
 Another land mine exploded on the railroad midway between Tel Aviv and Jaffa without causing casualties.
 British authorities at once im- posed a drastic surfew over the entire Haifa area.
 Before the bombings. the Arab quarter had been put under cur few as the result of the killing Of three Jews yesterday. two by a bomb, the other by gun shots.
 Arabs had held a jubilant demon- stxation Sunday morning in the be- lief that Great Britain proposed to set up an Arab state in Palestine. Police were forced to restrict them to their own quarter.
 American Jews Warn
 London, Feb. 27.-(UP) .-Prom- inent Americans including U. s. Am bassador Joseph P. Kennedy joined today in warning against a British proposal for a new Palestine State, as the government urged parliament to withhold judgment of the plan until further negotiations with Jews aid Arabs.
 Hearing that the new plan meant an Arab-dominated Palestine under British sovereignty, the United States Jewish delegation to the Palestine round table conference published Q cable signed by we'll known United States citizens de- scribing the plan as entirely inad- missable."
 'sThe proposal is entirely inadmis- sable," the cable said. Stand firm. If 1t becomes a final decision you should state impressively the moral and human violation sat the time an dtherefore why We cannot in any form participate. Responsibility for the impositions must be left exclu- lively with Great Britain"
 We'll Known Signers
 The signers included former Jus tice Louis D. Brandeis of the su- preme court; Benjamin Cohen, in- terior department lawyer; Bernard KIexner, president of the Palestine Economic corporation: Circuit Court Judge Julian Mack; Israel Brodie of the U. s. Economic Committee for Palestine: Rabbie Solomon Goldman, uresident of the Zionist organization 1n the United States: Mrs. Judith Epstein; and Louis wertheim.
 m the house of commons. Co., 1onial Secretary Malcolm Macdonald aid in reply to labogite questions fhat incomplete and misleading press reports" regarding the govern Inents suggestions had been respon- rIbIe for the new outbreak of blood- 1hed between Jews and Arabs in Palestine. where g Arabs were re- Dcrted killed and 50 wounded.
 Macdonald said he was unable to make . statement until negotiations we're further advanced. II appeal to the house and to the public here and in Palestine to withs | hold judgment on the lines 10 solu- | ton now being considered by the | conference until an authoritative | 1fetement can be made" he said.