World Zionist leader Dr. Chaim Weizmann told a crowded Palestine Week meeting last night that it was unthinkable that Jews would ever be dominated by an Arab majority in Palestine and reiterated the Jewish Agency’s stand that immigration must continue without artificial limitation and that no solution would be considered condemning the Jews to a permanent minority status in the Holy Land.
Dr. Weizmann emphasized that the Jews did not desire and did not intend to dominate the Arabs. He expressed the belief that ways could be found by which the Jews and the Arabs could live in peace and harmony.
Referring to the rumors of an impending change in the British policy on Palestine, Dr. Weizmann declared:
“Immigration to Palestine still goes on. It is unfortunately restricted, but it goes on and in two and a half years, 40,000 people have entered Palestine. I believe firmly that immigration will go on. The mandate is still operating and the Balfour Declaration is still a document under which our work for the present and, I am quite sure, for the future will be based.”
Dr. Weizmann appealed to Jews throughout the world not to be influenced by defeatist rumors, not to rely upon others and to continue to build and to create where others destroy. Other speakers included Herbert Morrison, labor leader; Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson, Conservative M.P.; Sir Norman Angell, author and lecturer; Lord Rothschild, Chief Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz and Prof. Selig Brodetsky, member of the Agency executive.
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