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4,000 Hear Warning by Jabotinsky

January 9, 1935
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Vladimir Jabotinsky, world leader of the Zionist Revisionist movement, tonight formally opened the sixth world conference of the World Revisionist Union.

Four thousand delegates, crowded into the convention hall, heard Jabotinsky’s opening address in Hebrew. Representatives of the Polish government attended the session. Messages of greeting were read from the British, French, American and Chinese Ambassadors.

SEES COMMONS INFECTED

Speaking first in Hebrew, then in Yiddish, Jabotinsky declared that the wave of anti-Jewish feeling is spreading in all countries. He quoted Josiah Wedgwood, a member of the British House of Commons, as authority for the statement that even the House has been infected by the “Hitlerite epidemic.”

“The boycott conference in London did not succeed in creating our own Jewish defense organization,” he declared, “but the boycott slogans have been deeply vaccinated in all people throughout

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