UNCERTAINTY AS TO THE FUTURE IS DELAYING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF PALESTINE, A PUBLIC MEETING CELEBRATING THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BALFOUR DECLARATION WAS TOLD LAST NIGHT BY PROF. SELIG BRODETSKY, MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE OF THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR PALESTINE.
DECLARING THE GOVERNMENT HAD CLEARLY REALIZED A CHANGE IN POLICY WAS NECESSARY, PROF. BRODETSKY SAID: “THE PRESENT UNCERTAINTY IS DELAYING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND IT MUST BE ENDED. WE HAVE GONE TO PALESTINE TO STAY. NOTHING CAN PREVENT REALIZATION OF THE AIMS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN PALESTINE.”
OTHER SPEAKERS AT THE MEETING, HELD UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE BRITISH ZIONIST FEDERATION, INCLUDED SIR WYNDHAM DEEDES, MRS. EDGAR DUGDALE, LADY READING AND THE REV. MAURICE GOLDBLOOM, WHO DELIVERED A MEMORIAL ADDRESS ON THE FIVE JEWS SLAIN IN PALESTINE YESTERDAY.
AMONG THE MESSAGES SENT TO THE MEETING WAS ONE FROM GENERAL JAN C. SMUTS, MINISTER OF JUSTICE IN THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA, DECLARING “COURAGE AND FAITH ARE NEEDED FOR A GREAT CAUSE, AND A CLOSING OF THE RANKS FOR A SUPREME EFFORT.”
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