A crowd estimated at more than 30,000 yesterday denounced British policy in Palestine at the largest Jewish mass-meeting ever held here.
The meeting was allowed to proceed only after the DAIA, central Jewish organization, protested a proposed government ban. The authorities agreed to permit the rally, provided that none of the speakers attacked Britain and none spoke Yiddish. A government spokesman said that the meeting was undesirable for “reasons of international policy.”
As a result of the official restrictions, the meeting adopted no resolutions and the addresses were very moderate in tone. Speakers included Adolfo Lanus, editor of La Prensa, most influential Argentine daily, and Silvano Santander, Radical Party deputy. A Peronist deputy, Leandro Reynes, had promised to speak, but did not appear.
Jewish shops remained closed the afternoon preceding the meeting and anti-British leaflets were distributed in the streets and the subway.
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