In the event of the Palestine Committee considering it desirable to call a special meeting of the Board in regard to the Prime Minister’s letter to Dr. Weizmann on the White Paper, a special meeting will be called, Mr. O. E. d’ Avigdor Goldsmid, the President of the Jewish Board of Deputies, said at to-day’s meeting of the Board.
I shall instruct the Chairman of the Palestine Committee, he added, to call his Committee together promptly.
There was no Palestine report circulated at to-day’s meeting, but at the commencement of the proceedings, Mr. Michael Levy (of the Association of Jewish Friendly Societies) asked whether he could raise the matter of the Prime Minister’s letter “so that the Board could voice its disappointment and indignation with the letter”.
The President ruled that any reference to the letter could be made on “other business” at the end of the Agenda.
At that stage, Mr. Levy asked the President to assure the Board that the Palestine Committee will meet immediately, and that a special meeting of the Board will be convened to deal with the letter.
After Mr. Morris Myer had expressed the hope that he would have liked to have had a statement from the President, Mr. Goldsmid said:
I should have taken it on myself if any resolution had been passed not to accept it, because I don’t think the Board should pass a resolution without full and adequate consideration by the Palestine Committee. The Palestine Committee considered the White Paper when it was issued, and it should consider this letter, and I shall ask the Chairman of that Committee to call his Committee together and submit a resolution to the Board at its next meeting.
This was agreed to.
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