Speaking tonight from the same Albert Hall platform where, 41 years ago Lord Balfour and Dr. Chaim Weizmann revealed the meaning of the Balfour Declaration, Ambassador Eliahu Eiath formally launched British Jewry’s celebrations of the tenth anniversary of the Jewish State which resulted from the proclamation of a Jewish National Home in the Holy Land.
The Albert Hall mass meeting was the first of a series of public events marking the anniversary. It was preceded by a dinner last night tendered by the Jewish National Fund at the Dorchester Hotel attended by Lord Samuel, the first British High Commissioner of Palestine, and members of Parliament representing all parties. Speakers included Lord Cohen, the Lord Justice of Appeal; Dr. Boris Chain, the Nobel Prize winner; Ambassador Elath and Gen. Igal Yadin. Harry Sacher, an intimate associate of the late Dr. Weizmann, offered the toast to the President and State of Israel.
In a gesture of friendship to the Jewish State, 130 members of the Parliamentary Labor Party joined today in a cable to Premier David Ben Gurion expressing fraternal greetings and warm good wishes on the occasion of the anniversary. Ambassador Elath told the overflow mass meeting that England would always have an honored place among the countries which at different times had understood the aspirations of the Jewish people and had helped in their fulfillment.
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