George Lansbury, veteran member of the House of Commons and a member of the Labor cabinet, presided at a lecture by S. Kaplansky, members of the Zionist Executive, in the House of Commons before forty members of the Parliamentary Commonwealth Labor group, including the under-secretary for India.
Kaplansky criticized the policy of the Palestine administration in connection with the defense system, the failure to employ Jews in government enterprises, the taxation system and the government’s attitude toward Jewish colonization.
Professor Selig Brodetzky, also a member of the Zionist Executive, will debate with Jamal Husseini, secretary of the Arab Executive now in London, next Monday. The debate will be under the auspices of Union Democratic control.
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