A formal protest against the suspension of Jewish immigration to Palestine has been filed with Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British ambassador at Washington, by the international Jewish order, B’nai B’rith. The protest was issued by Alfred M. Cohen, international president of the order, speaking in behalf of 80,000 members in 25 countries.
Mr. Cohen declared that the B’nai B’rith has learned “with the keenest regret of the order suspending Jewish immigration to Palestine issued by the High Commissioner. Jews the world over, in reliance on the Balfour Declaration and the proverbial good faith of His Majesty’s Government, have literally poured their money, their energy and their enthusiasm into the undertaking of rebuilding the ruins of their cradle land, of reclaiming its waste places.
“It has been their conviction that the Jews were being encouraged to enter Palestine as of right and not of sufferance. What adds to our deep concern is the knowledge that the action of the High Commission was not prompted by economic needs. We therefore respectfully urge upon His Majesty’s Government a removal of the misgivings of world Jewry created by the dissemination of the order through an early suspension of it and the reopening of the gates of Palestine to those who seek entrance thereto.”
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