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I saw details of a Jewish girl who agreed to speak in favour of the Balfour Declaration at a Zionist meeting, I think in 1918, before reading it, read it and sat silent on the Platform because the posters had been printed saying she would be there. Her disagreement was that there was not enough room or water in Palestine for all the world's Jews and what was to happen to the people then living there.

She then emigrated to South Africa and was an ANC supporter. I cannot now find the article I read about her and am wondering if it was so full of mistakes it has been dewebbed.

There are marked similarities with Ray Alexander but a very substantial difference. Can you put me right about this?

Note that the committee set up by the London East End Jewish workers Circle to stop Moseley's March was faffing about because no one would take the Chair until Isidore Berkov's wife told him that if no one else would do it he must volunteer. He did.

Years later he was a bit embarrased that his instruction to his spies to lay it on thick about any violence when they phoned in their reports on the March led to the complete fabrication about a Jewish girl being thrown through a shop window, the phone tap of that caused the Police to stop the March. So the Dockers who had been taken as young boys into Jewish homes for maintenance during a Dock Strike, who were up on roofs with bricks to stop the March, were never called into action.

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