The Emergency Committee on Palestine Affairs, representing all Zionist groups, held a two-hour special meeting today and decided to organize nation-wide rallies in protest against the Palestine land sale ordinance, with a mass meeting in New York to be held within a week.
The committee associated itself with the Jewish Agency’s statement of protest against the ordinance. The meeting was held at the headquarters of the Zionist Organization of America, with Louis Lipsky presiding.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, who returned today from Philadelphia, was asked for comment, but said he had nothing to add to the Jewish Agency statement. In a speech in Philadelphia last night he asserted that despite what others might say there was room for 2,000,000 Jews in Palestine and said that Jews must be prepared to demand autonomy in Palestine with control over their own immigration policy, finances and other affairs.
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