Opening the drive of the Palestine Foundation Fund (Keren Hay esod) in England, Leib Jaffe of Palestine, director of the fund, declared today at a gathering of Zionists from various parts of the Continent that the Battle of Britain was ” the front line of the struggle of the Jewish people and the struggle of Palestine.”
“Our moral and physical forces are identified with the British cause, ” Jaffe said, pointing out that more than 7,000 Palestine Jews had joined the British forces, most of them playing a role in Near East battlefields, with many more thousands eagerly waiting to be called up.
Lady Reading, chairman of the appeal committee, stressed the need of fortifying Palestine economically in view of the present war situation and the enormous Jewish population problem which would have to be settled after the war.
“For the moment it looked as if Palestine might escape,” she said. ” But now the shadow looms on the other side as the beast crawls down over Central Europe. We must have a strong economic background… If we all stand together and all build, we will have a state.”
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