The effort of the Board of Deputies of British Jews to prevail upon its president for the last seven years, D’Avigdor Goldsmid, to withdraw his resignation from office, failed at yesterday’s meeting of the board.
Mr. Goldsmid adhered to his decision and his resignation will take effect in January.
The visit of Adolph Hitler, Nazi chieftain, to President Paul von Hindenburg was dealt with in the report of Leonard G. Montefire, president of the Anglo-Jewish Association. Describing Hitler as the arch anti-Semite and Jew baiter, Mr. Montefiore said of the development in Germany’s political situation, “we can only watch, wait and hope.”
Leonard Stein, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Joint Foreign Committee, declared that the reference to L. Elliott, Palestine State Attorney, who insulted the Jewish people during a trial and then apologized before the Supreme Court in Palestine, by Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Secretary of State for the Colonies, during a recent Parliamentary discussion on the subject, was inadvertently misleading. The Colonial Secretary referred to Elliot as a “junior counsel.” Mr. Stein pointed out that Mr. Elliot is actually third in rank from the Attorney General and second in rank to the Solicitor General.
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