(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The Jewish national home in Palestine will be an accomplished fact within the next 25 years, extending even to a Jewish dominion under the protection of the League of Nations.
This was the prediction made by Col. Josiah Wedgwood, British labor leader, who is now here on his way home from a visit to Palestine, at a general press reception given in his honor at the Imperial Hotel. “Great Britain will gladly pay its, debt to the Jewish people,” he declared. “England will learn from the reconstruction of Palestine how to solve its own unemployment problem, by transferring numbers of workers to agriculture.”
Replying to questions, Col Wedgwood stated that on his return to London he will use his endeavors to convince the British government of the necessity to abandon its passive attitude in the problem of rebuilding the Jewish national home in Palestine. “Neutrals have never created,” he declared. “What is necessary is that the Palestine administration take a stand in favor of a speedy creation of a Jewish majority through general local and economic facilities, as well as through instituting a new soil taxation system in favor of the Jewish settlers.”
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