The Jewish National Council of Palestine is negotiating with the British military authorities in an attempt to arrange voting facilities for Palestinians serving in the British armed forces, it was learned here today.
Declaring that Jewish soldiers constitute eight percent of the persons eligible to vote in the forthcoming elections of representatives to the Assefath Hanivcharim, the Jewish National Assembly, the Council stressed the importance of their being enabled to cast their ballots. It pointed out that Australian and South African soldiers serving in the Middle East were enabled recently to vote for members of their respective parliaments.
The Jewish Farmers Federation here has dispatched six cases of choice oranges to Prime Minister Churchill as a New Year’s gift. Accompanying the oranges was a message expressing the farmers’ wishes for his complete recovery and the hope that 1944 will see an Allied victory and the liberation of the Jewish people.
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