At a meeting of the League of Human Rights, the following resolution was adopted: “We demand that the British government protect the Jews menaced with extermination by barbaric fanatics. The Jews settled in the Palestine Homeland have the right to the first of human right, which is life. Britain, which accepted the Mandate and its advantages, must fulfil its obligations.
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