THE JEWS’ MEETING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 7

THE JEWS’ MEETING

REPLIES TO PREMIER SPIRIT OF CO-OPERATION [ British Official Wireless ] Received Feb. 8, 5.5 p.m. RUGBY, Feb. 7. Mr. Chamberlain also made a speech of welcome at the Arab Conference to the representatives of the executive of the Jewish Agency and of the Jewish communities in Palestine, South Africa, and United States, and elsewhere. His speech followed closely the lines of that addressed to the Arab delegates. Replies were made by Dr. Weizmann, President of the Jewish Agency; Mr. Benvi, on behalf of the Jewish population of Palestine; Rabbi Wise, for the Jews of the Unitea States; and Lord Reading. Dr. Weizmann said lhat the aspirations of the Jewish Agency had always been for peace in Palestine. They had endeavoured through the difficult years since the Palestine mandate had been finally approved by the League Council, to maintain co-operation with the British Government, which had always been the ] corner stone of their policy, and they were approaching the present task in the same spirit. Rabbi Wise recalled how American Presidents, notably the late Mr. Woodrow Wilson and Mr. Roosevelt, had voiced the American people’s sympathy with the noble undertaking of the British Government to facilitate the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine. Lord Reading, speaking for those who might take a slightly different view from that of the official representatives of the Jewish Agency in approaching the problem, said they were nevertheless at one in recognising the vital need for the restoration of peace in Palestine and hoped to make a contribution, in common with their colleagues, towards a settlement just to the Jews, fair to the Arabs, and worthy of Britain.