Thousands of Jews overflowed the Stadthall here last night at a great protest meeting of the Berlin Zionists against Great Britain for the issuance of the White Paper on Palestine. All Zionist parties participated under the chairmanship of Kurt Blumenfeld, member of the council of the Jewish Agency for Palestine.
Among the speakers were Oscar Cohn, Hans Bloch, Nahum Goldman, M. Badt, and M. Kanowitz. A resolution was made to send brotherly greetings and assurance of sympathy and solidarity to the Vaad Leumi, the Jewish National Council in Palestine. The meeting pledged itself to carry forward the struggle for an internationally guaranteed Jewish National Home in Palestine, until the Balfour Declaration and the Palestine Mandate should be carried out in the spirit of their intentions.
The Socialist leader, Oscar Cohn, declared that the MacDonald government should be placed before the bar of international opinion, pointing out that even “the capitalist Felix Warburg” had rightfully shown the Passfield action to be ignoble. “Mr. Warburg’s action must remind Lord Passfield of the insistence that even politics must be based on respectable morality.”
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