The Palestine Pavilion at the French Colonial Exhibition here will not be opened by the end of May, as had been expected, it is now learnt. Many of the exhibits have not yet arrived from Palestine, and the building, too, is not likely to be completed in time.
M. Painleve, the French ex-Premier, who has repeatedly declared himself a supporter of Zionism, has consented to perform the opening ceremony when the Palestine Pavilion is ready.
Mr. Mayer Dizengoff, the Mayor of Tel Aviv, who is here superintending the arrangements for the Palestine Pavilion, will be given a reception here by the Keren Hayesod on the 19th. inst. Mr. Leon Blum, the French Socialist leader, who is a member of the Jewish Agency Council, will preside. Mr. Shalom Ash, the famous author, Mr. Motskin, Chairman of the General Council of the Zionist Organisation, Mr. Naiditch and Dr. Victor Jacobson, representative of the Zionist Organisation in Geneva, are on the Honorary Committee.
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