Recent events in Palestine have made impossible establishment of friendly relations between Jews and Arabs with the result that partition is the only alternative, a Palestine fund dinner was told last night by Sir John Robert Chancellor, a former high Commissioner. The dinner was sponsored by the keren Hayishuv, non-Zionist fund-raising body.
Sir John revealed he had discussed proposed incorporation of Palestine in the British Commonwealth with various people, who had assured him there was no hope that any nations in Europe would consent to it. If disaster is to be averted, he declared, sacrifices by the Arabs and the Jews must be made.
Neville laski, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, expressed the hope that in due course an undivided Palestine would become part of the British Commonwealth.
Commander Oliver locker-Lampson, Conservative M.P., declared Palestine would have been successful today but for the arrival in Germany of “military monsters who are determined sooner or later to take Palestine.”
Other speakers included Sir Robert Waley Cohen, Rabbi Moshe Blau and H.A. Goodman, Agudath Israel leaders, Otto Schiff and Haham Moses Gaster.
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