Paul Painleve, former premier of France when that country signified its adhesion to the Balfour Declaration, told a mass meeting of 4,000 people here protesting against the new British policy in Palestine that the “promise must be fulfilled. The Jews held to their pledge and enriched the country but the Arabs who sold barren land and now see it prosperous want it back by violence. Civilization will not stand for that.”
Other prominent speakers at the huge protest meeting were Anatole de Monzie and Justin Godart, former cabinet officers, Jean Longuet, Socialist leader, and Paul Milioukov former Russian statesmen. The anniversary of the Balfour Declaration is not a time for mourning, M. Godart declared.
M. Milioukov said that as one of those who fought with the Jews for their national rights in Russia he was behind the present protests. M. Longuet asserted that the White Paper was based on a misunderstanding as the Labor government “knows the admirable Jewish deeds in Palestine.”
Senator de Monzie, who presided, repeated what he had said in a previous interview that the British violation of the Mandate was a matter for the League of Nations. Hillel Zlatopolsky, M. Corcos and James Waterman Wise also spoke.
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