Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, David Ben-Gurion, chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency, and other leaders of the world Zionist movement, will be among the principal speakers at a memorial meeting for M. M. Ussishkin, which be held on Sunday.
In the meantime Zionist leaders and organizations in London today cabled messages of condolence to the widow of the late dean of the Zionist movement and to the Jewish National Fund of which Ussishkin was president.
The Jewish Agency cabled the following message from London: “We are overwhelmed by inexpressible grief at the tragic news of the demise of the doyen of Zionism, the pillar of our movement for several generations, who wrote so many glorious pages in the history of Zionism and sealed them with his large conviction and wholehearted devotion. He will live in the annals of our history for all time and serve us as a guide through his unceasing efforts for the revival of our people, our land and our language; for all of which he labored uninterruptedly and uncompromisingly, and with unparalleled zeal.”
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