CEREMONIES MARKING THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BALFOUR DECLARATION, WHICH COMMITTED ENGLAND TO FACILITATE ESTABLISHMENT OF A JEWISH NATIONAL HOME IN PALESTINE, WERE HELD HERE YESTERDAY WITH LORD ROTHSCHILD, PROF. SELIG BRODETSKY, LEONARD STEIN, CAPTAIN NATHAN SALAMAN, DR. SAMSON WRIGHT AND OTHER PROMINENT JEWISH LEADERS PARTICIPATING.
LORD ROTHSCHILD, HEIR OF THE LATE LIONEL WALTER DE ROTHSCHILD WHO AS PRESIDENT OF THE ENGLISH ZIONIST ORGANIZATION RECEIVED THE DECLARATION FROM LORD BALFOUR IN 1917, WAS PRESENTED WITH A GOLDEN BOOK CERTIFICATE INSCRIBED WITH HIS UNCLE’S NAME.
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