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Meeting on Jewish Army Agreement, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, Mar. 8, 1948.

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JERUSALEM, March 7 (AP)-A Jewish agency official said today the agency executive would meet in Tel Aviv Tuesday to consider ratification of an agreement between Haganah, the Jewish defense army, and Irgun Zvai Leumi, Jewish underground group.

“Should the agreement be ratified it will be an important step toward stabilization of the political situation of Palestine Jewry and consolidation of our fighting capacity,” the official said.

The executive of the extreme Zionist Revisionist party said in a communique it had decided to participate in the Jewish provisional government council after being reassured by the Jewish agency that agreement had been reached between Jewish fighting forces.

However, some influential members of the agency executive were said to be opposing any agreement with Irgun, which has claimed credit for some of the more extreme acts of violence in the Holy Land.

Riflemen guarding a Jewish motor convoy killed five Arabs and wounded another today in a battle near Gaza.

Three other Arabs and one Jew were killed in other incidents in Palestine. Today’s deaths brought the unofficial total to 1625 since the United Nations voted last November 29 to partition the Holy Land.

Eleven Arabs, five Jews and two British soldiers also were wounded during the day.

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