Mass meetings of protest against the Jewish immigration policy of the Palestine government are being organized all over Austria, by the varoius Zionist parties.
A meeting of the Juden Staat party, formerly the Democratic Revisionists, under the chairmanship of Meer Grossman, demanded the immediate convocation of the Actions Committee of the World Zionist Organization in order to vote lack of confidence in the present executive, which was chosen at the Eighteenth Zionist Congress at Prague in August.
Austrian Jewry is greatly excited over the immigration restrictions, particularly in view of the considerable amount of immigration into Palestine from Austria in recent months.
The Revisionists are holding meetings at which sharp criticism is levelled against the Palestine government and the British government. At a meeting today, Wolfgang von Weisl, journalist and leader of the Revisionists, declared that the expulsion of the Jews from Palestine, that is, the expulsion of immigrants who entered the country illegally, was a worse catastrophe than that which overtook the Jews under the Nazis.
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