The pro-Arab forces in parliament are determined to undertake a campaign of action at the next session which will surpass all their previous efforts, the parliamentary correspondent of the Jewish Chronicle writes. Encouraged by the government’s decision suspending immigration the anti-Zionist parliamentarians are apparently confident that they can get better results by an efficient organization.
The chief leaders of the anti-Zionist bloc are Howard Bury, F. Seymour Cocks and J. J. McShane. These, together with about a dozen others, will launch a new anti-Zionist offensive.
The pro-Palestine parliamentary group, under the leadership of Col. Josiah Wedgwood, with the influential support of representative members, sees no danger from this new move on the part of the anti-Zionist bloc. The Jewish Chronicle’s correspondent states on the highest authority that no decision has yet been reached with regard to the suspended immigration certificates. Representations on this score have been made by the Palestine parliamentary group and by Zionist leaders to the government.
The hostile reception accorded to Dr. Drummond Shiels, British under-secretary for the Colonies, in certain quarters on his visit to Palestine, was not unexpected by the British government. Under normal circumstances Lord Passfield himself would have gone to Palestine but owing to the tension in Palestine it was decided that Dr. Shiels should go. It is semi-officially stated in ministerial circles that after the Palestine program of the government is launched very frequent visits to Palestine will be made by members of the government.
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