London, May 1, "Instead of asking us to plough the sands of a tropical wilderness, why docs not the Colonial office open the gates of Palestine?" "asked Rabbi Perlzweig, the Chairman of the British section of the World Jewish Congress, in commenting onthe British Guiana report, The report, he continued, described the British "Guiana project as ad~ mittedly of uncertain value" and doubtful prospect, promising in the ext few years nothing more than a tentative settlement of a few thousand men in an inaccessible, inhospitable {tract of tropical territory.
Rabbi Perlzweig declared that there were 1,000,000 Jews living today: in what virtually amounted to avast concentration camp, and if they were to be saved it had. to begin today, hot tomorrow.—Reuter, Question in Commons London, May 11.
'The Jewish refugee problem was touched upon in the House of Commons yesterday when the Conservative Member' Hepworth inquired whether the plan to settle 300,000 Jows in Palestine is being devised by. the government.
Me. R.A. Buller, Under-Secretary of State' for Foreign Affairs, replied that the government was not aware that this number of Jews had been or was to be expelled from Hungacy He then referred to the work of the Committee of Investigation composed representatives of Britain, the United States and Holland." This group was considering the possibility the present time of settling Jewish Tefugees in British Guiana, North Rhodesia, Tanganyika, Dutch Guiana and the' Philippine islands—Tra Ocean,
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