Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, today concluded his visit in the northern part of Palestine during which he was given an affectionate reception by thousands of Jewish settlers. Addressing the colonists in the most-northern Defneh settlement, Dr. Weizmann said: “I have seen country still empty with plenty of room for a multitude of new Jewish settlers without affecting a single Arab.”
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