Breakdown of Palestine’s economic life affecting British capital invested here will follow suspension of Jewish immigration, the Jewish Industrialist Manufacturers Association warned in a cable to the British Cabinet today.
The cable, addressed to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Colonial Secretary William G. A. Ormsby-Gore, declared that suspension would throw new financial burdens on the British government and taxpayers for maintenance of a military machine.
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