On April 24 1948, Sir Alexander Cadogan told the Security Council that the Syrian charges were without justification and that in fact only about 100 Arabs had been killed. From Jerusalem, Sir Allan Cunningham, British High Commissioner, informed the British foreign Office that the attacks had been stated by the Arabs and that the charges of massacre were untrue, The exoneration of the Haganah by the British represented the first such action in recent disturbances in Palestine. Source: Sir Alexander Cadogan told the Security Council: Nation