THE ZIONIST CONGRESS RESOLUTION BROUGHT GENERALLY FAVORABLE COMMENT TODAY IN THE LONDON MORNING PAPERS. THE TIMES, TELEGRAPH AND CHRONICLE ALL EDITORIALLY EXPRESSED APPROVAL OF THE CONGRESS DECISION. THE CONSERVATIVE MORNING POST, HOWEVER, VOICED DISAPPOINTMENT, DECLARING THE RESOLUTION WAS FAR FROM WHAT HAD BEEN HOPED FOR, AND WARNING THAT HOSTILE RESOLUTIONS WOULD DELAY PARTITION AND GIVE BUSYBODIES AN EXCUSE FOR INTRIGUE.
DR. WEIZMANN’S CRITICISM OF BRITAIN BEFORE THE CONGRESS CAUSED THE CONSERVATIVE EVENING STANDARD TO EMPHASIZE THAT NO REFERENCE HAD BEEN MADE AT ZURICH TO THE ANTI-SEMITIC POLICY OF GERMANY, PROBABLY BECAUSE GERMANY PERSECUTED THE JEWS, “WHILE GREAT BRITAIN LISTENS PATIENTLY AND DOES NOT RETALIATE.”
“BRITISH JEWS SHOULD TAKE CARE TO WARN THEIR CO-RELIGIONISTS WHO HAVE BEEN ASSEMBLED AT ZURICH THAT THEY DO THEIR RACE NO GOOD BY STIRRING UP ANIMOSITY AGAINST THIS COUNTRY,” SAID THE STANDARD.
REUTERS NEWS AGENCY REPORTED FROM PALESTINE THAT FUAD SABA, SECRETARY OF THE ARAB HIGH COMMITTEE, HAD ATTACKED THE PARTITION PLAN AND THE ZURICH RESOLUTION, DECLARING “NO SCHEME OF THIS KING CAN EVER BE A CAUSE FOR PEACE AND TRANQUILITY IN THE HOLY LAND.”
“THE ARABS, HE ADDED, “HAVE ALWAYS WARNED THE WORLD AGAINST JEWISH AMBITIONS IN PALESTINE, AND THE ZURICH RESOLUTIONS ESTABLISH BEYOND DOUBT WHY THE ARABS HAVE EXPRESSED ANTAGONISM TO THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT AND WHY THE ARABS DO NOT BELIEVE THE SUGAR-COATED WORDS URGING CO-OPERATION VOICED BY PREVIOUS ZIONIST CONGRESSES.”
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