A resolution favoring the Arab populace in Palestine was adopted here by the British League, an anti-Semitic organization, meeting last night in the West End Hotel. Entirely unofficial, the resolution is a mere reaffirmation of the Arabic demand to put a stop to Jewish immigration in the Holy Land. The resolution was blocked at a previous meeting of the League which members of Parliament had been invited to attend.
Advertised as a meeting which was to celebrate the anniversary of General Allenby’s victorious entry into Jerusalem, the real purpose of the convention was obviously known to a considerable number of prominent political figures who declined invitations to attend. Among those present were one member of Parliament, diplomatic representatives of Arab countries, Lithuanian and Latvian ministers and the Roumanian charge d’affaires.
Following an appeal for funds to support the activities of the anti-Semitic group, Walter S. Taylor, former military governor of Jerusalem, said that while he did not object to the idealistic aims of Zionism, he opposes “the materialistic ambitions of the Jews in Palestine.”
Viscount Heresford, who presided at the meeting, made the assertion that Zionists are underpaying the Arab landowners for their property.
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