Discontent of the Jews was imme-ately made apparent through a declaration issued by the Jewish Notional Council. it voiced opposition to any plan ossing upon Palestine Jewry the "status of a minority.
"The reported proposal regarding ihe end of Britain's mandate over Palestine and the creation of an independent State under the control of jan Arab majority, is capable of shattering the very foundations of the Jewish National Home," the declaration read. "This plan will encounter the opposition of the Jewish population in Palestine and of the whole Jewish people.
"The Jewish population will unanimously oppose any attempt to impose upon it the status of a minority and to limit its growth and free development in its own country. There will be no Jewish Ghetto in the land of Israel."
Paris, Feb. 26.
"We will not permit anyone to touch our empire, built with the blood and labour of Frenchmen: we will maintain our sovereignty and our territory intact," declared the Foreign Minister, M. Georges Bonnet, in a speech at Gourdon today.
Bonnet explained that recognineral Franco's Nationalist regime in Spain was necessary cause France wanted neighbour ly reditions with Spain, she wished to re-establish commercial relations with her, and did not wish to have a new frontier to defend.
M. Bonnet said that, at the same time as relations between France and Germany were improving, relations between France and Great Britain were becoming increasingly close.
The recent speeches of Lord Halifax, the British Foreign Secretary, and Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister, had shown the whole world, he asserted, "complete Anglo-French solidarity."—Reuter.
Jewish Factions Unite France to Retaliate Great differences separatin rightist Revisionaries led by M. Jabotinsky; the labour groups headed by M. Katznelson and the moderates, ed by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the Jewish Agency, have given way to a common front opposed to the British scheme. All are unit for the struggle against any plan e dangering the principle of a Jo National Home in Palestine.
Jewish newspapers of all tendencies: today expressed Jewish resolution to face the danger united.
The Revisionists are now demanding the resignation of Dr. Weizmann and his replacement by M. Jabotinsky. As a sign of protest, the Mizrahi religious group has recalled its repr sentatives in the Jewish delegation London, including Grand Rab! Hertzog and Rabbi Liziel, Chief of the Sefaroite Community.
The Grand Rabbi of Jerusalem, D:.
Jacob Moler, however, made a lair attempt at conciliation today in appealing to King Ibn Sand of the Hedjaz to reach a solution by com-mise of the Palestine problem. He ated such a settlement should take into account the attachment of Jewry to the Promised Land.
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