A crowded mass meeting here, called to protest the reportation of the Exodus refugees, cheered today when Prof. Selig Brodetsky, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, declared that cooperation with Britain has ended, “the future of the Jewish people must depend on the Jewish people itself.”
Brodetsky charged, on the basis of conversations with the Colonial Office this week, that the Exodus passengers were not returned to France because there was no room on Cyprus, but because the British thought by this means to halt visaless immigration. He cited the reports of the two new ships captured today as evidence that immigration will continue under all circumstances.
Other speakers included Nat Jackson, of the Poale Zion, who called on British Jewish youths to join their American brethren in manning immigrant ships, and Sidney Silverman, Labor M.P., who said that if the British had waited at Dunkirk for proper ##avigation certificates the army would still be there.
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