Foreign News: Passfield On The Run?

Potent Britons continued to react last week to Colonial Secretary Baron Passfield's declaration concerning Palestine which so enraged World Jewry (TIME, Nov 3).

Dr. 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...

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