The Marchioness of Reading, chairman of the Palestine Foundation Fund in Great Britain and prominent in Jewish welfare work, here for her first visit to the United States, said today that British Jewry was “rather apprehensive” about the outcome of the forthcoming London conferences on Palestine. Lady Reading, who intends to combine a four- or five-week tour of the United States to study conditions with speaking engagements for the United Palestine Appeal, stressed, in an interview, that Palestine was “the heart of the solution of the refugee problem” and urged an international loan for settlement of 200,000 refugees in the Holy Land in the near future.
Regarding the political question, Lady Reading said: “British Jewry hopes a solution will come out of the conferences, but is doubtful and rather apprehensive. Still, we are bending all efforts. We have a good team for the negotiations. All have great faith in the leadership of Dr. Chaim Weizmann.”
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