Word: passfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-five thousand Jewish protestants against the "Passfield Declaration" on Palestine (TIME, Nov. 3 & 10) introduced themselves by main force last week into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (capacity 20,000). Perspiring police worked furiously to thin out the crush, finally drove a police car gently but firmly across the packed arena, ejecting by this means some 500 standees...
...Chaim Weizmann, who resigned as President of the World Zionist Organization as an act of protest, keynoted last week at a London Zionist rally: "We have forgotten Pharaoh. We will forget Passfield...
Viscount Rothermere redoubled his defense of the Passfield Declaration. Said his Daily Mail: "Some of the ablest and wisest Jews in England regarded the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine for their co-religionists as a mischievous project. Even the New York Times, which is owned by Adolph Ochs, a Jew, only last week expressed opposition to the Balfour Declaration and the Zionist scheme...
...Baron Passfield himself seemed to weaken under a barrage of criticism from Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin, Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Professor Albert Einstein and the Marquess of Reading, Rufus Daniel Isaacs. At a meeting of Labor M.P.'s the author of the Passfield Declaration admitted that "its wording may have been unfortunate and perhaps open to an anti- Jewish interpretation which was not intended...
James Ramsay MacDonald did not deny rumors that the Passfield Declaration was drafted, released without his knowledge. In circles close to the Prime Minister it was learned that a "supplemental" or "explanatory" White Paper would soon be issued...