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Locker Favors Policy of Placating Britain

The wisdom of friendly cooperation with the mandatory government of Palestine and a rapidly improving understanding between Arab and Jewish residents of that country were stressed yesterday by Berl Locker, principal speaker at the second session of the administrative committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, at Federation Building, 71 West Forty-seventh street. Neville Laski, […]

January 2, 1935
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The wisdom of friendly cooperation with the mandatory government of Palestine and a rapidly improving understanding between Arab and Jewish residents of that country were stressed yesterday by Berl Locker, principal speaker at the second session of the administrative committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, at Federation Building, 71 West Forty-seventh street.

Neville Laski, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and chairman of the Agency ### administrative committee, ### at yesterday’s sessions, to ### with Judge Julian W. Mack.### meeting, which began Monda The ### afternoon and will be concluded ### day, marks the first time that ### administrative committee has ### ### evened in the United States.

Mr. Locker in the course of his address also outlined briefly the reasons for the Agency’s opposition to the mandatory government’s proposed legislative council for governing Palestine.

FAVORS COOPERATION

“There are those who think that the best policy would be to engage in protest,” Mr. Locker said in discussing the political work of the Agency’s executive committee, of which he is a member, “in a {SPAN}###{/SPAN}{SPAN}###manent{/SPAN} accusation of the {SPAN}###{/SPAN} government, thinking apparently that the more we demand the more we will get. This is not always the case. We consider friendly cooperation with the mandatory government the normal

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