the Jewish Agency. This argument is, however, far from being convincing when one considers the sharp shortage of labor and the fact that thousands of Arabs are smuggling their way into Palestine from all the neighboring Arab countries.
A London report to a New York newspaper this week discloses that the intervention made by the Board of Jewish Deputies with the Colonial Office in London is largely responsible for the fact that the Palestine government has now granted more immigration visas to the Jewish Agency than ever before. If this report is correct, then the Board of Jewish Deputies ought to be sincerely congratulated.
The leaders of the Board of Jewish Deputies are far from being Zionists. Their representations to the Colonial Minister were based chiefly upon the fact that the Jewish situation in many countries of Europe is growing worse every day. Thousands of Jews are seeking refuge from Poland, from Austria, from Germany, from Greece and from other countries. Palestine is one of the countries that can absorb a number of them. Furthermore, Palestine is a Jewish country, developed with Jewish capital and by Jewish efforts. Jews are therefore entitled to seek refuge in this country more than in any other.
INTEREST OF DEPUTIES WILL BE WELCOMED
The active interest taken by the Board of Jewish Deputies to secure a larger Jewish immigration of Jews to Palestine will therefore be welcomed by all Zionists as well as by all Jews who do not share the nationalistic program of the Zionists.
With the Saar and Palestine in the forefront, the events in Jewish life in other countries—though very serious—have been overshadowed this week.
The events this week in Austria have only substantiated the fact that the Austrian government does not intend to ease its anti-Jewish policy. The new trade law promulgated this week in Austria will wipe Jews out of commercial life, just as they are being wiped out of public life. The legal position of the Jews in Austria this week reached a stage compelling the Jewish leaders there to appeal to the world.
Similarly in Poland, the Kolo—club of the Jewish members of the Polish Parliament—this week summoned a special session of its members to seek ways and means of saving Polish Jewry from complete annihilation. The Jewish situation in Poland is becoming highly intolerable, the Kolo established.
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