The question of securing the admission into Palestine of more Jews from Europe, as the number of immigration certificates available under the terms of the British White paper are nearly exhausted, was the major question under discussion at the plenary session of the Jewish National Council which opened here last night.
Numerous speakers today emphasized that everything must be done – including the calling of a general strike throughout the country – to impress upon the British Government that the doors of Palestine must be kept open for Jewish immigration.
Executive officers of the Council reported that during the period between the last plenary session and the present, two representative Jewish delegations appeared before the High Commissioner and appealed for his intervention to secure the opening of Palestine to the remnants of European Jewry. One of the delegations also explained to the High-Commissioner the aims and the role of the Haganah, the Jewish self-defense organization in Palestine.
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