The National Emergency Committee for Palestine, in a statement today, voiced “emphatic disapproval” of anonymous circulars calling for a demonstration against Britain’s Palestine policy when King George and Queen Elizabeth arrive in the United States. Resistance to the White Paper “bears no relation whatever to the visit of the royal heads of Great Britain,” the statement said.
The committee also made public a statement of Dr. Charles S. MacFarland, general secretary emeritus of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, opposing the new British policy. He expressed the belief that Christians in Palestine would not welcome a return to Arab rule, that it would be unjust to place the Jews under an Arab administration and that Jewish refugees have a right to look to Palestine “in this unhappy hour.”
Hadassah, reporting an increase of 19,000 members since Oct. 1, bringing the total to 85,000 in the senior and junior divisions, said that the increase since May 1 had been at the rate of 275 daily, indicating that “indignation over the issuance of the White Paper has aroused new interest in Palestine among widespread groups of Jewish women throughout the country.”
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