Aftermath
The UNSCOP committee, which operated in Palestine at that time, could not have ignored the act. However, it was soon overshadowed by a new crisis over 'the Exodus,' a Haganah-operated ship laden with 4,500 Jewish displaced persons, which set sail from France and was refused entry to Palestine, instead being sent back to Port-de-Bouc.
Menachem Begin claimed in his book "The Revolt" that the "cruel act" was one of the events which tipped the balance in the British withdrawal from Palestine. However, the intention to terminate the Palestine Mandate not later than in 1948 had been announced by the British government in 1938 and included in the White Paper of 1939.
In a November 1948 letter regarding an entrance visa to the United States for Menachem Begin, Robert A. Lovett wrote that it might spark a conflict with Britain, due to Begin's association with Irgun acts including the murders of Paice and Martin.
In 1981 it was claimed that Clifford Martin met the Halachah definition of a Jew, since his mother came from a Jewish family from Cairo.
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