Word: passfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Potent Britons continued to react last week to Colonial Secretary Baron Passfield's declaration concerning Palestine which so enraged World Jewry (TIME...
Numerous U. S. political candidates voiced their indignation last week, some telegraphing President Hoover. Meeting at Washington, D. C. the American Jewish Congress resolved censure of the Passfield Declaration, and prominent Jews urged the Hoover Administration to protest officially...
Sorely hit was Philanthropist Felix M. Warburg, who has put more than $1,000,000 into the Jewish National Home. With quiet dignity he announced that Lord Passfield had "misled" him. He declared: "So complete was our confidence and faith in the British Government that millions of pounds were poured into Palestine." He resigned in protest his Chairmanship of the Administrative Committee of the Jewish Agency...
...Passfield Declaration is an unfortunate document, more unfortunate in impression than in actual wording...
...emergency meeting of the World Zionist Actions Committee planned for November 4 in London. To cheer President Weizmann came a fighting letter from Great Britain's richest Jewish industrialist, Baron Melchett, who also resigned his chairmanships of the Council and Political Committee of the Jewish Agency. Calling the Passfield Declaration a "grotesque travesty ... an insult to the intelligence of Jewry," he wrote with cold fury: "It is impossible to discover what rights the Jews in or out of Palestine are to have in the future, or in what way they can be made to feel they have any rights...