The New York Times · New York, New York · 8 June 1926

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WEIZMANN DEMANDS MORE LAND FOR JEWS

Letter to League Hits Attitude of British in Palestine on State and Waste Lands.

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GENEVA, June 7 (Jewish Telegraph Agency).—Regret that there has been no “material change in the attitude of the Palestine Government toward the questions raised by the Zionist Executive with regard to allotting State and waste land for Jewish colonization in Palestine and allotting State funds for the Hebrew school system in Palestine” was expressed by Dr.

Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization, in a letter submitted to the Permanent Mandates Commission, which opens its session here tomorrow.

In his letter, which was addressed to Lord Plumer, the High Commissioner of Palestine, with the request that it be submitted to the Secretary General of the League of Nations for the information of the Permanent Mandates Commission, Dr.

Weizmann “takes the initiative,” as was recently suggested by the British Government, in the land question, repeats the demand that greater allotments be made for the Hebrew educational system, voices the complaint of the Jewish population of Jerusalem against the events on the last Day of Atonement at the Kothel Ma’aravi (The Wailing Wall), and raises the question whether, according to the provisions of the Mandate, the Palestine Government is to play an entirely passive rôle in the upbuilding of the Jewish National Home in Palestine.

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