Between fifty and sixty members of Parliament present at a meeting of the Palestine Parliamentary Committee here listened to reports on the present situation in Palestine as presented by Dr. Nahum Sokolow, former president of the World Zionist Organization, and Prof. Selig Brodetsky. Col. John Buchan, M. P., presided over the session, which was held in the House of Commons.
Dr. Sokolow referred to his recent visit to Palestine, and outlined his impressions of the developments which were taking place there. In particular he referred to the striking gowth in the absorptive capacity of the country in its elation to Jewish needs abroad, to the importance of the German immigration, and to the benefits derived by the Arabs from the introduction of Jewish capital, Jewish workers and Jewish energy into the country.
Prof. Brodetsky, in emphasizing the remarkable industrial and agricultural expansion for which the Jews had been responsible, urged the need for a closer understanding and a closer cooperation between England and the Jews in the upbuilding work in Palestine. That country, he pointed out, was fated by its geographical position to be the bottle-neck through which the East and the West would communicate, and would one day constitute the factor whereby the one great half of mankind might be interpreted to the other.
Capt. Strickland, M.P., and Barnett Janner, M.P., joint secretary of the Palestine Parliamentary Committee, also spoke.
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