The American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs today received a cable from Palestine stating that Moshe Shertok, chief of the political department of the Jewish Agency, will not be able to proceed to the United States. He will limit his trip to London from where he will return to Jerusalem in view of the fact that his presence there is important at the present time.
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