Barnett Janner honorary president of the Zionist Federation here, was re-elected as a Labor Member of Parliament for Leicester Northwest in Britain’s parliamentary elections last week one of a number of Jews who were returned on both Labor and Conservative tickets. His son Grenville who was contesting his first election on behalf of the Labor Party was defeated.
Another Jewish communal leader who was returned by his constituents was Sir Henry D’Avigdor Goldsmid who won the newly-created electoral division of Walsall West for the Conservations. Sir Henry is president of the Jewish Colonization Association.
Among Jewish M P.’s reelected all of them Laborites, were Emanuel Shinwell, David Weitzman Sidney Silverman, Julius Silverman, Maurice Edelman, Maurice Orbach, who is general secretary of the Trades Advisory Council which deals with discrimination in employment and business, and Poale Zion leader Ian Mikardo, who is one of Aneurin Bevan’s closest aides.
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