Eliezer Kaplan, treasurer of the Jewish Agency. who has just returned from the World Zionist Conference in London, denied today that Dr. Chaim Weizmann had said anything at the meeting indicating that he did not have any faith in a Jewish State. Such a statement was attributed to Dr. Weizmann by Rabbi Judah L. Fishman, Mizrachi leader, who also attended the conference. Kaplan told a press conference that Rabbi Fishman either misunderstood or misinterpreted what Dr. Weizmann had said.
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