Dr. Ch. Weizmann, former President of the Zionist Organisation and the Jewish Agency authorises the J.T.A. to-day to state that he has no intention of standing for Parliament.
A report that Dr. Weizmann had been invited to stand as Labour candidate for the Exchange Division of Manchester was widely published in the Press a few weeks ago, but Dr. Weizmann was out of the country, and up to the present no official statement of his intentions with regard to the invitation has been published.
Only yesterday, the “Manchester Evening Chronicle” stated that Mr. Eric Mendel, Secretary of the Exchange Divisional Labour Party, had just explained to it that the invitation was issued through the London organisation, and as Dr. Weizmann had been travelling on the Continent the letter might not have reached him, in which case another would be sent.
The Zionist Organisation, immediately the report appeared in the Press, informed the J.T.A. (given in the J.T.A. Bulletin of August 22nd.) that it took the view that there was no likelihood of Dr. Weizmann accepting any invitation to stand for Parliament.
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