PALESTINE POLICY
STATEMENT THIS WEEK WHITE PAPER TO FOLLOW (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, May 15. The long-awaited statement on the Government's Palestine policy will be made in the House of Commons this week, probably to-morrow, and it will be followed almost immediately by the publication of a White Paper. JEWS PLANNING PROTEST GENERAL STRIKE PROPOSED LONDON, May 16. (Received May 16, at 10.30 p.m.) The Jerusalem correspondent of The Times says the Jewish National Council is leading the Jewish community in planning a protest throughout the country, including public meetings and a general strike when the Government policy is announced. The Chief Rabbi, Dr Isaac Herzog, who was interviewed, expressed the conviction that people in England do not appreicate what is at stake. He added: "It is not merely that great pledges are about to be violated or another national trust disowned. Something more terrible is involved, in as much as a movement unique among movements for human freedom will be extirpated, depriving a small people, struggling for survival against overwhelming odds, of a hope maintained for 2000 years, though they are dispersed to eveiy quarter of the globe. They will be handed over to those who dp not conceal their determination to destroy that hope."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23810, 17 May 1939, Page 9
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