A delegation of thirteen British Jewish leaders visited Colonial Secretary J.H. Thomas today and presented to him a resolution in the name of the Jews of England protesting the projected establishment of a representative legislative council in Palestine.
After the conference, the delegation said that Mr. Thomas ” took careful note of the representations made him and promised to furnish the deputation in due course with a considered reply.”
The delegation was headed by Lord Melchett, British Jewish industrialist; Meville Laski, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and Sir Isadore Salmon. Organizations represented were the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the Board of Deputies, the Palestine Foundation Fund, the Mizrachi, orthodox Zionist group; the Peale Zion, labor Zionist organization, and the Judenstaat Party, right wing body.
The resolution was adopted unanimously by delegates of British Jewish organizations at a conference January 19. It demanded that “any proposal for the development of self-governing institutions in Palestine must be based on the inherent principle that the future of Palestine is the concern of the whole Jewish people.”
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