Major Daniel Hopkin Says United States Bolsters Reorganization of Palestine Movement, at Luncheon in

Support by the United States of the establishment of a National Jewish Homeland in Palestine through the adoption in 1922 by Congress of the joint resolution approving the Zionist project, constitutes a strong factor in assuring the reorganization of the administration of Palestine to pervent recurrence of the recent Arab disorders, wherein many Jews were killed and American lives and property lost, Major Daniel Hopkin, member of the British Parliament, and distinguished officer of the World War who fought under Gen. Allenby in the Palestine Campaign, declared, at a luncheon attended by over thirty leading senators and members of the House of Representative Hamilton Fish of New York in the Speaker’s Dining Room in the Capitol yesterday.

Among those present at the luncheon were the majority leaders of both branches of Congress, Senator James Watson of Indiana, and Representative John Q. Tilson of Connecticut.

Prior to the luncheon, Major Hopkin discussed the Palestine situation with President Hoover, to whom he was introduced by Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, a brother Welshman, Major Hopkin’s constituency being West Carmarthen, Wales, adjoining Secretary Davis’s birthplace. President Hoover manifested keen interest in Major Hopkin’s recital of the facts concerning the disorders in Palestine, it is understood.

Immediately following the luncheon, Major Hopkin was extended the honor of being introduced from the floor of the House of Representatives by Congressman Fish, who was specially recognized by the Speaker for the purpose.

“The fact that the United Sates, through the resolution of Congress, is definitely committed in favor of the Jewish Homeland movement, and the strongly sympathetic pronouncement of President Hoover, will greatly help to strengthen English public opinion, of which the House of Commons is the mouthpiece, and eventually the British