The World - News from June 12, 1988
British agents blew up almost a dozen ships in which Jewish survivors of Nazi concentration camps were to be smuggled to Palestine in 1947, London’s Observer newspaper reported. The weekly said that Britain’s foreign secretary at the time, Ernest Bevin, ordered the operation. Britain ruled Palestine under a League of Nations mandate after World War I and opposed the influx of Jewish settlers into the area that in 1948 became the state of Israel.
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