The Jewish National Fund of America announced today that it has cabled $150,000 to Palestine for the purchase of land “as an encouragement to Palestine Jewry” in its struggle against the new British policy.
The Palestine Economic Corporation will continue to encourage agricultural and industrial development in Palestine despited the White Paper and any other obstacles, declared Board Chairman Bernard Flexner in a statement. “The corporation will continue to supply farmers with credits for their agricultural needs. It will continue to build houses for workers in Palestine and those still to come. It will conserve additional water resources, develop irrigation systems and make new land available for agricultural settlement. It will encourage the industrial development of the country.”
The Orthodox Rabbinical Board of Greater New York and the Mizrachi Organization of America summoned Jews to synagogues for Sabbath services to recite Psalmist oath, “If I forget thee, O, Jerusalem, may my right hand wither.” Messages have been received from organizations with an aggregate membership of 2,000,000 in support of the Jewish homeland, declared the National Emergency Committee for Palestine. One of them was from Henry Mousky, president B’nai B’rith.
A telegram denouncing the White Paper was dispatched to President Roosevelt today bearing the signatures of seven national organizations representing 250,000 Jewish women affiliated with religious, labor and Zionist groups.
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