Professor Selig Brodetzky, David Ben-Gurion and Deputy Isaac Gruenbaum, members of the new Executive of the World Zionist Organization, visited the Colonial Office this morning and in a two hour conversation, acquainted the officials with the decisions of the Eighteenth World Zionist Congress, which closed recently in Prague, and the immigration demands made by the Congress.
It was learned that they also pressed the Colonial Office to approve the demand made by the Jewish Agency that the Palestine government grant the Agency 24,700 labor certificates in the next six months.
According to an official announcement made here today, Professor Brodetzky, Ben-Gurion and Berl Locker visited Dr. Chaim Weizmann, at Meram, Italy, on behalf of the new Zionist Executive, in order to clarify the details of the organization of the campaign for the German Jews, of which organization Dr. Weizmann is to be the head, in accordance with the decision of the Congress.
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