Dr. Drummond Shiels, the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Ormsby-Gore, who was Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies in the Baldwin Government, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, M.P., son of the Prime Minister, Mr. Philip Guedalla, and Mrs. Dugdale, the late Lord Balfour’s niece, will be the speakers at a dinner which will be given on May 5th. in honour of Lord Cecil of Chelwood, by the Anglo-Palestine Club, of which he is the patron, having accepted the position on the death of the former patron, Lord Balfour.
Mr. James de Rothschild, the President of the Club, will be in the chair.
Dr. Drummond Shiels will speak on behalf of the Government, in response to the toast of the Mandatory Power, and Mr. Ormsby-Gore will propose the toast of the Jewish National Home.
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