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Jewish Agency to Take Up Palestine Problems at Meeting November 11

November 6, 1929
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The various problems arising from the outbreaks in Palestine, the problem of Arab-Jewish relations, as well as the proper methods to be adopted in approaching the British and Palestine government will be considered at a meeting of the political committee of the Jewish Agency convened for November 11, it was announced this afternoon at a press conference of the Zionist Executive this afternoon.

Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency, who has returned from Meran, will participate in the coming meeting.

Dr. Selig Brodetsky and S. Kaplan-sky of the Zionist Executive have, in the past few weeks, interviewed a number of officials in the Colonial Office with regard to the Palestine evenas.

The problems of security of the Jewish settlements, immigration and Jewish labor, with special emphasis on granting an adequate share to Jewish labor in the construction of the Haifa harbor were taken up with Undersecretary for the Colonies, William Lunn. With the Labor government in power it is expected that satisfactory results on these fundamental points will be made.

The question of the sources of the Moslem inflammatory agitation will be taken up by representatives of the Zionist Executive with the Undersecretary for India.

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