The Rt. Hon. Harry Snell, British labor leader and a Labor member of the House of Commons, will be the guest of honor and chief speaker at the forthcoming session of the American Jewish Congress to be held at Washington, D. C., beginning Sunday, October 19, according to an announcement made yesterday from the offices of the American Jewish Congress, through the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Mr. Snell, a member of Parliament since 1922, was the representative of the Labor Party on the Palestine Inquiry Commission which investigated the disturbances of August 1929. He is widely known as a writer and lecturer on economic subjects, having been chairman of the British Ethical Union and an official of the London School of Economics.
As a member of the Palestine Inquiry Commission, Mr. Snell was the author of a minority report attached to the published findings in the form of reservations which made clear his emphatic stand in favor of the fulfillment of the Mandate and the Balfour Declaration to assure the realization of the Jewish aspiration for their National Home in Palestine.
The forthcoming session of the American Jewish Congress will be the eighth since its organization.
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