Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, today conveyed his personal condolences and those of the Agency to Polish Acting Premier Stanislaw Mikolaczyk on the death of General Sikorski and the members of his staff who died with him when their plane crashed into the sea off Gibraltar. Dr. Weizmann said that the “Polish Government and the Polish people have suffered an irreparable loss.”
The Agency headquarters in Jerusalem sent cabled messages of sympathy to the Polish Government here and also to the family of Major Victor Cazalet, M.P., who was travelling with Gen, Sikorski. A message from Isaac Ben-Zvi, president of the Jewish National Council in Palestine, received today by the Speaker of the House of Commons, expressed “Palestine Jewry’s heartfelt condolences to the British nation and to his family on the death of Major Cazalet.” A session of the Zionist Actions Committee meeting in Jerusalem was interrupted when the news of the crash reached there, and eulogies of Gen. Sikorski and Major Cazalet were delivered, the Agency office here was informed today.
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