The British White Paper on Palestine has not struck primarily at Zionism but fundamentally at the Jews, the Rev. Dr. John Haynes Holmes, pastor of the Community Church in New York, told 450 members of the Hadassah, the American Women’s Zionist Organization. Denouncing the new British policy, Dr. Holmes said it has caused the “gravest tragedy that ever happened in the history of Zionism.”
He said, “Had we been told three weeks ago that this thing that the Labor cabinet has done would be done we would have thought it incredible. Nothing can help the British Labor cabinet which will be damned forever in the light of history. The British White Paper has not struck primarily at Zionism but fundamentally at the Jews. It has done two other serious things. The new policy is dividing the British Empire and even the Labor Party.”
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