An urgent meeting of the political commission of the Jewish Agency for Palestine has been called to meet in London, June 23, by the executive of the Agency in conjunction with the chairman of the commission, Lord Melchett, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency is officially informed. The meeting has been called to discuss all questions connected with the political situation created in the Zionist movement by recent events.
The members of the commission in addition to Lord Melchett are Dr. Cyrus Adler and James Rosenberg of the United States, d’Avigdor Goldsmid and Major H. L. Nathan from England, Robert Bollack of France, Oscar Wasserman, Kurt Blumenfeld, Berthold Feiwel and Nahum Goldman from Germany, M. M. Ussishkin, Isaac Ben Zwi and Dr. Chaim Arlossoroff from Palestine, H. Farbstein and Leo Motzkin from Poland and Baron de Menasse from Egypt.
Meetings of protest against the suspension of immigration to Palestine will be held throughout the United Kingdom Wednesday, simultaneously with the protest meeting arranged by the English Zionist Federation in Kingsway Hall. Local members of parliament will attend the meetings organized for Leeds, Manchester, Dublin, Glasgow, Cardiff and Swansea.
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