The Palestine land act was caustically described today need by Mrs. Edgar Dugdale, niece of the late Lord Balfour, as a “burnt offering of Jewish national rights on the altar of Arab desires.” The description is contained in a pamphlet on the origins and background of the Balfour Declaration, one of two issued by the Jewish Agency for Palestine. The second deals with documents and correspondence relating to Palestine during the period from August, 1939, to March, 1940.
The executive committee of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, at a specially convened session, last night expressed its “regret and dismay” at the British Government’s action in enacting the Palestine land ordinance. A request was sent to the Government to receive a delegation representing the Board.
The New Zionist Organization issued a statement denouncing the restrictions and “the whole regime and system of which it is but a symptom.”
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