JEWISH STERN GANG SENT LETTER BOMB TO PRESIDENT TRUMAN TO INTIMIDATE HIM TO SUPPORT THE CREATION OF STATE OF ISRAEL
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There had been a flurry in England in June of that summer because eight or more government officials and political personages tad received terrorist letters in which explosives
were cleverly concealed. Among those who got such letters
were Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, Colonial Secretary
Arthur Creech Jones, President of the Board of Trade Sir
Stafford Cripps, and former Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.
Cripps's secretary noticed that the letter he received was hot
(police said later it was apparently about ready to explode)
and he stuck it in water. Eden carried his letter unopened
in his briefcase for twenty-four hours before a secretary,
tipped off by police, found it There were two envelopes, the
outer one about eight by six inches and cream-colored. The
innner envelope was marked "Private and Confidential/*
presumably in an effort to see that it was opened by the man
to whom it was addressed. Inside the second envelope was
powdered gelignite, a pencil battery, and a detonator ar
ranged to explode when the envelope was opened. Police
exploded one experimentally and said that it was powerful
enough to kill a man. The so-called Stern gang of Palestine
terrorists later claimed responsibility for having sent the
letters from its "branch in Europe," The letters were post
marked from Italy.
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