There are at least 1,000,000 acres of arid land in the Negev, Palestine southern desert area, which can be made to flourish and support tens of thousands of families, Dr. James G. MacDonald, a former member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, said tonight, citing experiments carried out by Jewish scientists.
In an address to the Bikurim (First Fruit) Festival of the Jewish National Fund’s labor department, held at the Hotel Commodore with 2,000 persons attending, Mr. MacDonald deplored the fact that while screaming headlines report the deportation of Jewish immigrants and the acts of terror, little publicity is given the “story of the unabated heroic efforts of the Jews to rebuild the Holy Land” in the face of the opposition by the Mandatory Govenment. Judge Morris Rothenberg, president of the JNF, described Palestine Jewry’s resistance to the British as “a struggle for land and water.”
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