Zionist Youths Picket British Consulates in N.y., Boston

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Zionist youths here and in Boston staged demonstrations before the British Consulates in both cities today, in what was believed to be the first anti-British action of the kind taken by Zionists in America.

A picket line of 150 Zionist youths marched for three hours in front of the Consulate at 25 Broadway. Banners attacking the British ban on immigration to Palestine, the White Paper and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain were carried by the demonstrators. A delegation representing the Zionist Youth Emergency Council, presented a petition to the Consul calling upon the British Government to cancel the immigration ban and abandon the new policy on Palestine.

The Boston picket line, at the head of which marched a troop of Hebrew Boy Scouts, attracted a throng of spectators. The demonstration was ordered ended by the police.

Zionist and non-Zionist organizations joined yesterday in sending a cable strongly protesting the British immigration decree to Prime Minister Chamberlain. Dispatched by the National Emergency Committee on Palestine, the message bore the signatures of leaders of the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, the Zionist Organization of America, Hadassah, the Mizrachi Organization and the Poale Zion.

“We hear a great deal in this House,” he said, “about promises which have been made to Jews, but very few references from the benches opposite about promises made to the Arabs of Palestine.

He declared that the White Paper offered the best basis for an accord between the two peoples, and added that the Permanent Mandates Commission was a purely consultative body and the final verdict on the White Paper’s compatibility with the Mandate must be given by the League Council.

MacDonald promised that no steps would be taken to change the terms of the Mandate, in order to make it conform with the present White Paper policy, without further consultation of Commons.

He charged that many Jews from Poland and Rumania have thrown their papers overboard while enroute to Palestine, so that when they are captured trying to enter the country illegally they are classified with German Jews who cannot be returned to their country of origin. Consequently, the authorities are forced to let them remain. “These Polish and Rumanian Jews going into Palestine illegally are also keeping out of Palestine some of those Jewish refugees from Central Europe we would like to see going in,” he declared. He accused Jews of conspiring by this and other maneuvers to break the immigration laws simply for the sake of flouting British authority. “It is an organization to smash the White Paper policy,” MacDonald charged. “It is a position we cannot tolerate.”