In a message addressed to the participants in Saturday’s demonstration against the immigration policy of the British government, which took place in Tel Aviv, Vladimir Jabotinsky, leader of the Revisionists, declared:
“Your righteous outbreak and sacrifice will remain in Jewish history as the birthday of a decisive Jewish world onslaught, which will smash the anti-Zion rule in Zion, and aid in bringing the dawn of the Jewish state.”
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