BRITAIN TRUSTED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 756, 31 August 1929, Page 11

BRITAIN TRUSTED

UNITED STATES LEADERS COUNSEL JEWS (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) WASHINGTON, Thurs. The President of the United States, Mr. Herbert Hoover, sent a telegram to Zionists who held a mass meeting at New York. He said he knew the whole world acknowledged the fine spirit shown by the British Government in accepting the mandate over Palestine in order that, under its protection, there might be established a homeland so long as it was desired by the Jews. President Hoover said he was confident that the outcome of the tragic events of the past few days would be greater security and greater safeguards for the future, under which the steady rehabilitation of Palestine as a true homeland for the Jews would be even more assured. A message from New York says Senator W. E. Borah, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, addressed the Zionist meeting. He urged caution and laid stress on the difficulties which must accompany the formation of a Jewish nation in Palestine. Senator Borah said it was very difficult to understand how the disorders could have happened. If he knew where the blame rested he would not hesitate to speak, but he did not know. The implication in Senator Borah’s speech was that the United States should take no action which could possibly embarrass Britain in the solution of the problem.