20 AUGUST 1937, Page 23

JEWS AND ZIONISTS

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]

SIR,—It is astonishing and disheartening to note that in all the discussions of the plan of partition for Palestine proposed by the Royal Commission, it seems to be taken for granted that the Zionists speak in the name of Jewry, though the fact is that they constitute but a section in Israel. It is essential that the Agudas Yisroel, the world organisation of Orthodox Jews, at whose head stand virtually all • the rabbinical authorities, be consulted before any definite pro-

cedure is undertaken in the Holy Land. JACOB HELLER. Boston, Massachusetts.