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Show Commend Giving Nation League Mandate Over Palestine Pales-tine to Great Britain NEW YORK, April 27. The Zionist Organization of America, announced last night It had received several hundred hun-dred telegrams from Jews In the United States approving' tho action of tho San Rcmo conference in awarding the mandate over Palestine to Great Britain. Tho Zionists started their movement for a JewiBh homeland at Basle, Switzerland. Switz-erland. August 21, 1S97. Then tho idea was derided by many persons as visionary, vis-ionary, the Zionist Organization said, but the movement eventually became tho strongest party in Jews' lives. There are hundreds of thousands of Jews at Constantinople Odessa, Con-stanza Con-stanza and Vladivostok, nwaiting to embark for Palestine. "With issuance of tho Balfour declaration dec-laration November 2, 1917, by which Great Britain pledged itself to aid the Zionists to establish a Jewish homeland home-land in Palestine," said the stateent "and with tho endorsement by President Presi-dent Wilson and -all allied and many neutral powers, the Zionist Organization Organiza-tion of America began operations to I prepare Palestine for the vast migration migra-tion which will ensue now that the political status of the land has been fixed. |