The Hebrew Teachers’ Union of Palestine today cabled to Nahum Sokolow, president of the World Zionist Organization, and Menachem Mendel Ussishkin, president of the Jewish National Fund, in Basle, protesting against the appointment of Isaac B. Berkson, an American non-Zionist, as the member of the new Executive of the Jewish Agency in charge of education.
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