After being received here by Governor Curley of Massachusetts and by Mayor Mansfield, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Zionist Revisionist leader, delivered a stirring address on Palestine yesterday before the Foreign Policy Association at a luncheon in his honor at the Copley Plaza Hotel.
An audience of more than 400 noted persons listened to Jabotinsky speak on “Palestine, More Than a Refuge From Anti-Semitism.” Jabotinsky declared that Palestine is not only a sufficient safeguard for Jewish national existence. The anti-Semitic pressure increases the need of Jewish immigration and five million Jews clamor at Palestine’s gates. Colonized at the density of Wales, Palestine will contain eight million people, Mr. Jabotinsky said.
“After the World War, the justice of the Jewish case for Palestine was recognized by the entire world opinion, acting through the League of Nations and the Congress of the United States,” Mr. Jabotinsky emphasized.
Jabotinsky’s address created a tremendous impression and was concluded with a statement by Professor Hocking, who said that “the area of agreement with Jabotinsky has considerably enlarged after hearing him.”
Mr. Jabotinsky also addressed the Jewish War Veterans here and had luncheon with Prof. Felix Frankfurter of Harvard.
Nehamias de Castro Benedict, for some time president of the Portuguese-Jewish congregation at Hamburg, served as physician-in-ordinary to Queen Christina of Sweden.
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