Praise for Sir John Simon’s suggestion that the World Court be asked to render an opinion on the British White Paper on Palestine and that the British government should not enforce the recommendations of the White Paper unless and until the court has decided in its favor, is contained in an editorial in Wednesday’s New York World.
“From every point of view this seems to be a statesmanlike proposal,” says the editorial. “Sir John Simon speaks with great authority as an international lawyer. If he believes that the question can properly be brought before the World Court there is good reason to believe it can. Since the dispute turns upon the interpretation of a Mandate of the League of Nations, a decision by the World Court would plainly be the most desirable and most reassuring method of settling the point of issue.”
Reports of additional Jewish protest meetings against the British declaration of policy on Palestine in various parts of the United States have been received by the Jewish Daily Bulletin. More than 3,000 persons attended a protest meeting in New Haven, Conn., on Sunday night, at which the speakers included Congressman John Q. Tilson, Mayor Thomas A. Tully, Louis Lipsky, Philip Troup, Louis Sachs and Isaac Hamlin. In Nashville, Tenn., Rev. Prentice A. Pugh, an Episcopal minister, was among the speakers at a big protest meeting held on Sunday night.
Through a regrettable oversight, Senator William E. Borah’s message to Sunday night’s protest meeting in New York was omitted from the Jewish Daily Bulletin’s report of that meeting. The following is the text of the message sent by Senator Borah, who is chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, to Emanuel Neumann, chairman of the Committee on Public Information of the Zionist Organization of America:
“Deeply regret I am unable to be present in person, but I am in full sympathy with the object and purposes of your meeting. Not only all Jewry but all who are blessed with a sense of justice and who can understand and measure the hopes and aspirations of a great people, will share with you profound regret that an intimation of repudiation should attach itself to the Balfour Declaration. I have confidence that a wiser and more just policy will prevail.”
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