JEWS AND PALESTINE

Hawera Star, Volume L, 25 October 1930, Page 5

JEWS AND PALESTINE

BRITAIN’S POLICY RESENTED

APPEAL PROM TT.S.A. JEWS “IMPUNGING BRITISH HONOUR” ,I'IIIKU I'lcßß AlWuCUll/IOU 44., UWllll 1f If g4H JJU IlgUk.i NEW YORK, Oct. 23. The American Palestine Jewish Legion to-day cabled to Lord Allenby, ‘•in the name of oOOU Jewish soldiers,” recalling their services and appealing to him to ‘'prevail upon your fellow British citizens to resist this latest attempt to impugn British honour.” A large Zionist meeting of protest is being planned to be.held in Madi.sou Square Garden on November 2. Dr. Cyrus Adler, one of the most distinguished figures in American Jewry, warned his co-religionists today against any anti-British feeling. He says: “Politicians come and politicians* go, but the spirit of the nation lives forever. The British people can he trusted in the long run to carry out their obligations.” The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” states that although the State Department has declined to comment on the situation, the present indications are that it will follow a “hands off” policy.

EARLY DEBATE EXPECTED. REGRET OF CONSERVATIVES. 1 LONDON, Oct. . 23. 1 The English newspapers anticipate [that the Government’s policy in ie- ' gard to Palestine will be the subject of an early debate in the House of Commons. In a joint- letter to the Press Mr Stanley Baldwin, Sir Austen Chamberlain and Mr L. C. M. S. Amery express deon concern at . the resignation of Dr. Weizmann, to whose work as joint chairman of the Jewish Agency’s council they nay ihigh tributes. They regret that the Government rejected Dr. Weizmann’s proposal for a roundtable conference and that the Government, “without giving either Jewish or Arab opinion an opportunity to express itself, or allowing the voice of Parliament to he heard, has laid down a policy of so definitely negative a character.”