Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency, today published a letter in the London Times stating that if the murder of the two police officials in Palestine was perpetrated by Jews, he expressed “grief, horror and indignation” in behalf of the Jewish Agency for Palestine and all decent Jews throughout the world.
“Such crimes, “Dr. Weizmann writes, “are utterly contrary to the past record of Palestine Jewry which, even under the intense provocations of Arab outrages, has preserved self-restraint.” Dr. Weizmann, at the same time, takes exception to the manner in which the Jerusalem correspondent of the London Times “tries to turn the acts of a few, so far unidentified criminals to the detriment of the Jewish cause.”
“In reality every Jew, whether Zionist or non-Zionist, is opposed to the White Paper,” Dr. Weizmann emphasizes in his letter, “The demand for a Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine has been voiced by millions of Jews. The Jewish national cause must not be besmirched with crimes. Nor should it be linked up with them by tendentious implications.”
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