Weizmann Threatens to Hale Britain Before Court of World Opinion on Palestine

Bitterly arraigning Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald for his proposed solution of the Palestine problem, Jewish Agency President Chaim Weizmann told a gathering of Jewish settlers last night that England would hear his voice “from every corner of the world on the Heaven-shaking injustice they would inflict upon the Jewish people.” Dr. Weizamann, who headed the Jewish delegation to the recent London conferences on Palestine, addressed a meeting at Nahalal of representatives of Jewish settlements in the Galilee and the Jezreel Valley.

Threatening to hale Great Britain “before a disinterested court,” Dr. Weizmann said: “If there’s a MacDonald in England, there is also a Balfour in England. If England does not understand the importance of 16,000,000 Jews to world democracy, she shall soon understand it and we shall do the utmost possible to further that understanding. I have been silent for 20 years. Now I shall start to speak and England will hear my voice from every corner of the world on the Heaven-shaking injustice they would inflict upon the Jewish people.”

Discussing the London conferences, Dr. Weizmann declared: “There is no need to despair for our future. Not we but the British were the losers at London because it had surprisingly placed administrative necessity before honor and justice. But I am sure that the British Government will learn from the London conferences and will change a viewpoint which brings a breathing spell of hours only.” He continued: “Our enemies did not confront us at London. Behind the front were obscure forces residing in Berlin, Rome and elsewhere. Without exaggeration, I think the results of the London conferences were good because they did not do with us what they had let be done to Czechoslovakia. The Zionist work, land purchase and immigration will be continued. They know this as well as we do and if anybody does not understand this, we will bring him here to see and to hear.”