Before a large gathering of Junior Hadassah members here, Mrs. Archibald Silverman of Providence, nationally known woman Zionist, declared that perhaps the issuance of Britain’s future Palestine policy was after all the “best thing that has ever happened to us” since it was a challenge whereby all Jewish forces might be unified for the Zionist cause. “If Palestine is lost to us,” she continued, “the disgrace will be not only on the heads of every Zionist but on every Jew throughout the world.”
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