On Tuesday a similar meeting of protest was held in
the Mile End Great Assembly Hall by the Jewish Territorial Organisation, attended by over seven thousand persons, and presided over by Sir Robert Reid. Mr. Zangwill, in a striking speech, expressed his regret that the Zionists rejected any land of refuge outside Palestine and its neighbourhood, and moved a resolution declaring the establishment of an autonomous Jewish land under British protection for the gradual reception of oppressed Jews to be the only solution of the Russo-Jewish question. This scheme, it may be noted, has met with the cordial support of Mr. Chamberlain. He added that the Colonial Secretary had appointed as the day on which the project should be laid before him December 4th, a day of good omen, as it was the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the first sitting of the Council presided over by Cromwell to consider the admission of the Jews into England.
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