“The rumors that I am opposed zo the United Palestine Appeal are absolutely false and unfounded.” This was the statement made to a representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency by Vladimir Jabotinsky. noted leader of the Zionist. Revisionists, on his arrival yesterday in New York on the steamer “France.”
Mr. Jabotinsky declared that he came to the United States to deliver a series of lectures, and that his contract would not permit him to appear on any other platform. “But if I were not bound by this contract,” he said. “I would gladly render my services toward the success of the Five Million Dollar palestine Drive, which the American Zionist Organization is conducting. Regardless of any criticism I may have against certain activities of the World Zionist Executive. I am always pleased to see as many Jews as possible going to Palestine, and as much money as possible collected for Palestine perposes.”
Asked whether it was true that Lord Plumer. High Commissioner of Palestine, had refused to grant him Palestine citizenship, Mr. Jabotinsky declared: “I cannot say that the Palestine government officially domed citizenship to me. It only reinsed to make an exception in my case when I asked for citizenship, although I have not lived in Palestine the last two years. I asked for this privilege on the ground that I had lived in Palestine before, prior to the ### of the near naturalization law. But Lord Plomer suggested that I would be granted citizenship upon coming again to Palestine.”
Referring to the uprising of the Drazes is Syria and the fear expressed by some that the uprising would affect Palestine, Mr. Jabotinsky declared that there was no special danger at present “It is true that there is considerable explosive material in Palestine, but there Is no reason to believe that the recent occurrences in Syria will cause any trouble in Palestine,” he explained. “The Arabs in general are not nnited and there is no danger of their revolring in Palestine as they have done in Syria.”
The Zionist Revisionists will, however. Mr. Jabotinasky pointed out, continue to demand that a Jewish gendarmerie be organized in Palestine as part of the British army. “We have demanded we demand now, and we will continue do demand, the recreation of the Jewish Legion, as a part of the English garrison, in palestine,” be averred.
Mr. Jabotinsky was met at the pier by representatives of the American group of Zionist Revisionists, as well as a number of American Zionists. He will remain in America two months, during which time he will make a lecture tour under the auspices of the Hurok Musical Burean. His first appearance will be in New York, on Sunday, January 31st.
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