The Executive of the Jewish National Council today decided to send the Council’s chairman, Pinchas Rutenberg, to London to aid in the Jewish Agency’s negotiations with the British government. Simultaneously the Executive appointed a committee of three consisting of Chaim Arlosoroff, Meyer Dizengoff and Berl Katzenelson, all of whom are now in London, to present the Council’s political views. One of these will fill the place allotted to the Council on the Jewish Agency’s political commission.
ment arbitration committees and who is considered a great authority on the British constitution, was, in fact, the intermediary between the government and Dr. Chaim Weizmann since the issuance of the White Paper. Disgusted by that document he broke relations with Lord Passfield, whose personal friend he was for a number of years, and decided to plunge into the work of having the White Paper withdrawn. He is the son of Nathan Laski, a prominent Manchester Zionist and member of the Board of British Deputies.
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