An overflow crowd present last night at the meeting held to protest the British White Paper on Palestine heard Rabbi James Heller of Cincinnati denounce the British Labor government for alleged double-dealing with the Jews. Other speakers were Rabbi F. A. Katz Rabbi Ben Cohen, Daniel Frisch and Rabbi Nelson Steinberg, who presided. Messages from Senator Arthur Robinson and Congressman Louis Ludlow denouncing the British policy in Palestine were read at the meeting.
“Such a line of conduct invites the suspicion of the world, constitutes a betrayal of trust and places Great Britain in an unenviable light,” declared Senator Robinson in his message, while Congressman Ludlow wrote:
“The British White Paper seeks to arrest progress and to turn Palestine face about into the dead past. It must not be. The cause of Zionism is the cause of humanity and civilization.”
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