Crowded mass-meetings here and in Toronto, last night, cabled appeals to Prime Minister MacKenzie King, who is now in London, urging him to intervene with the British Government to secure abrogation of the White Paper. They also wired Prime Minister Attlee, pointing out the plight of the European Jews who desire to emigrate to Palestine.
The meeting here, which was addressed by Dean Howard Le Sourd, of the American Christian Palestine Committee and the Very Rev. Kenneth C. Evans, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal, was attended by 1,500 persons and hundreds more were turned away for lack of space.
In Toronto, the featured speakers were Sir Ellsworth Flavelle, national chairman of the Canadian Palestine Committee, Lieut. Col. David Croll, M.P., E.J. Jolliffe, who spoke on behalf of M.J. Coldwell, leader of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and several other members of Parliament and public figures. The resolution adopted was read by Mayor Saunders of Toronto.
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