In discussing the present Palestine situation the “Commonweal” , American Catholic organ, in its issue of June 11 points out that it is natural that Jews, non-Zionists as well as Zionists, should protest against the suspension by the British Colonial Office of more than three thousand immigration certificates to Palestine after these had been approved by the Palestine Administration itself on economic grounds. With regard to the protest of non-Zionists, led by Felix M. Warburg, the “Commonweal” says:
“The opposition of Mr. Warburg is more significant. Mr. Warburg, as chairman of the Jewish Agency, speaks for Jews of every shade of opinion, and is himself distinguished by particularly liberal and benevolent views. When he pleads that further investigation cease ‘because Palestine has already been overinvestigated’, and urges that the immigration ban be lifted at once ‘for suspense is very acute’. one feels the real gravity of the situation, and the cruel definiteness of the Labor government’s dilemma”.
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