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Belgian Senate President Impressed with Palestine

April 7, 1929
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What he saw in Palestine exceeds all his expectations, declared Charles Magnette, the president of the Belgian Senate, who is here on a visit.

He had hesitated to accept the presidency of the Belgian Pro-Palestine Committee, M. Magnette declared, but he is now proud of it. During his first addresses in the Belgian Senate, he plans to relate his impressions of Palestine, he declared. The president of the Senate will also report on Palestine to the Foreign Ministry and will seek to influence Belgian financiers to invest capital here.

M. Magnette declared that the progress of the Jewish work in Palestine has been the quickest, especially in Tel Aviv, which is the most modern, the most comfortable of cities. The colony Rechobot is like a bonbonniere sample for the French and Belgian villages. The Senate president was especially impressed with the excellent roads in the country.

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