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[Shaktimaan]

For decades the British denied they had been warned. In 1979, however, a member of the British Parliament introduced evidence that the Irgun had indeed issued the warning. He offered the testimony of a British officer who heard other officers in the King David Hotel bar joking about a Zionist threat to the headquarters. The officer who overheard the conversation immediately left the hotel and survived.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/King_David.html

From your link, the British did not seem to have an issue with the amended version of the plaque. I don't see why the call would not have been made, considering we know that the other two warning calls, to the french consulate and the palestine post, had certainly occurred. All evidence seems to point to the fact that the call was made. The only thing indicating otherwise is a British denial, which would make sense considering that had the call been made to them, they bear much of the responsibility for the deaths.

The original wording:

The Hotel housed the Mandate Secretariat as well as the Army Headquarters. On July 1946 (sic) Irgun fighters at the order of the Hebrew Resistance Movement planted explosives in the basement. Warning phone calls had been made urging the hotel’s occupants to leave immediately. For reasons known only to the British the hotel was not evacuated and after 25 minutes the bombs exploded, and to the Irgun’s regret and dismay 91 persons were killed.

The amended version

. . .Warning phone calls had been made to the hotel, the Palestine Post and the French Consulate, urging the hotel’s occupants to leave immediately.

The hotel was not evacuated, and after 25 minutes the bombs exploded. The entire western wing was destroyed, and to the Irgun’s regret 92 persons were killed.