A new Jewish Legion for defence against Palestine rioting was urged last night by speakers at a dinner marking the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the international Jewish battalion which aided Great Britain in the wartime campaign in the Holy Land.
A warning that a Jewish national home without adequate defence was merely a “national death trap” was given by Colonel J. H. Patterson, who commanded the wartime Jewish Legion. Leopold S. Amery, former Colonial Secretary, asserted that the Jewish national home in Palestine could not be regarded as a home unless those living there played a part in its defence.
Another Jewish Legion, with the British troops and Jewish police, could have suppressed the recent disorders in a month, declared Col. Josiah Wedgwood, Laborite Member of Parliament. He added that order could have been restored if it had been willed.
Vladimir Jabotinsky, president of the New Zionist Organization, offered a round-table conference to iron out internal differences among Zionist groups.
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