A plea for leniency in the case of Eri Jabotinsky, son of President Vladimir Jabotinsky of the New Zionist Organization, who is serving a one-year term in the Acre concentration camp for smuggling refugees into Palestine, was voiced in the House of Commons today by Labor M.P. Josiah Wedgwood. Colonial Undersecretary George H. Hall promised to bring the case to the attention of Colonial Secretary Lord Lloyd.
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