House of Lords, but he said, “The best tribute we can pay to Lord Balfour’s memory is to have the same confidence and courage in the success of our cause, as he himself expressed, to inspire ourselves with his idealism and inflexible courage and to make our tribute one of action.”
Explaining that it would be out of place for an outsider to go into questions of Britain’s policy, Felix M. Warburg, chairman of the Administrative Committee of the Jewish Agency, exclaimed, “but we know and feel encouraged by what has been said tonight and do not doubt that what has been promised will be carried out. I go back in a few days to my friends and will take back to them the assurance that behind this promise stands a Nation, and behind the memory of Lord Balfour stands the belief that what we want to do can be done.”
Other speakers at the meeting included Chief Rabbi Hertz, Sir Robert Hamilton, Mrs. Philips Snowden, and Nahum Sokolow. Messages were received from Baron Edmund Rothschild, Dr. Albert Einstein, Lloyd George, Leon Blum, Sir Austin Chamberlain, Sir Herbert Chamberlain, Lord Reading and Sir Hall Caine. A distinguished audience attended, including a number of members of Balfour’s family. Among those present were Mrs. Blanche Dugdale, Major and Mrs. Lascelles, and Viscount Trapain. The meeting, which opened with a Cantor chanting a memorial prayer, concluded with the singing of “Hatikvah.”
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