Sir Boyd Merriman, counsel for the Jewish Agency before the Palestine Inquiry Commission’s hearings, arrived in Montreal with a party of English jurists and lawyers on their way to the convention of the Canadian Bar Association in Toronto. Sir Boyd absolutely refused to express any opinion on the report of the Inquiry Commission or to discuss the situation in Palestine.
He explained that professional ethics do not permit him to make any statement regarding the findings of the Commission, as he has an inviolable rule not to make any public statements regarding a case in which he appeared professionally. For the same reason, he declared, he will not voice any opinion if the question is raised in Parliament. He added that he was personally interested in the Palestine question and that Felix M. Warburg and Dr. Chaim Weizmann were fully acquainted with his attitude.
The party of over 200 English and French advocates includes seven Jews, one from France and six from England. Those from England are Lionel Leonard Cohen, W. Frampton, Simon Nissim, Miss Sara Moskowitz, A. S. Cohen and M. M. Block. M. Weill is from France.
Sir Boyd, who received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from McGill University yesterday, will come to the United States later in the month to attend the American Bar Association convention in Chicago. He will return to England from New York on August 27, sailing on the S. S. Berengaria.
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