War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha told the House of Commons today that his ministry and the Colonial Office were considering a proposal to compile a register of Jewish volunteers in Palestine for service in the event of war.
The Jewish national home in Palestine is far too strong to be destroyed or subjected to Arab rule, Prof. Selig Brodetsky, political chief of the Jewish Agency’s London department, told a Zionist meeting last night. The Government should decide to postpone the whole Palestine business rather than to make a decision repudiating its promise, Prof. Brodetsky said. He stressed the Jews’ loyalty to Britain, asserting that in any event the Jews would be found on the side of the democracies.
Attacking the Government for carrying on discussions with the Arabs without consulting the Jewish Agency, the Zionist leader reiterated the Jews’ rejection of Britain’s proposals for an independent Palestine state and expressed the belief that a British Government promise was not “a Hitler promise.”
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