Voicing his personal opposition to the British Government’s offer of an Arab Agency constituted along the lines of the Jewish body provided for under the Palestine Mandate, Dr. Chaim Weizmann President of the Zionist Organization, at the meeting here of the Actions Committee asserted it was his belief that the erection of such an Agency would weaken the contents of the Mandate and would affect the rights of the Jewish Agency.
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