Weizmann Determined Not to Compromise with Ben-gurion, Agency Member Cables

Cable advices received here from a member of the delegation which the Jewish Agency has sent to London emphasize that Dr. Chaim Weizmann is not inclined to compromise with David Ben-Gurion who resigned as chairman of the executive of the Agency because of his disagreement with Weizmann’s policies. This makes it difficult to press suggestions that Ben-Gurion be invited to London to join in the negotiations now proceeding between Weizmann and British officials.

(Unconfirmed reports current in London today state that Moshe Shertok, head of the political department of the Jewish Agency, and a member of the delegation, brought to Dr. Weizmann a seven-point request from Ben-Gurion. It demands, among other things, peace with the conciliatory section of the Zionist-Revisionists and insists that Dr. Weizmann take a stronger attitude towards certain leaders of the Agudas Israel organization whose activities are considered harmful to Zionist political efforts in Washington and in London.)

Addressing a meeting of friends of the Jewish agricultural school in Mikveh Israel, which faces a large deficit, Ben-Gurion criticized “those who are ready to conclude peace with Arabs by sacrificing Jewish rights to immigration; thus placing a knife in the Jewish back.” He reviewed Jewish agricultural achievements in Palestine and declared that “Jewish agriculturists can easily compete with the best agricultural experts the world over.”