Sir Osmond d’Avigdor Goldsmid, former president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, resigned from the board today. It was understood that he resigned because of a resolution adopted by the board on Jan. 16 favoring inclusion of a Palestine Jewish dominion in the British Commonwealth of Nations.
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