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indifferent to all religion. They consider compulsory indirect taxation also contrary to Mr. Churchill’s statement and opposed to the principle of religious freedom. Seeing that all their protests were in vain, the Council of the Ashkenazim Jews opened their own bakery: they did not pay the tax to the Zionist Local Council (Vaadei Hair) which brought an action against the Ashkenazim Council in the Courts which will be heard shortly.

The Government has the intention to give the Zionists also the right of levying compulsory indirect taxation on the ritually slaughtered meat; which tax will also have to be paid by the non-Zionist Jews. It is already been asked in the Arabic press, why the Government does not grant such rights to the National Arab Organisation.

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Sir Herbert Samuel bases his whole policy on paragraph 4 of the Palestine Mandate which recognises the Zionist Organisation only as the Jewish Agency. The non-Zionist Orthodoxy asks: i) That the Orthodox World Organisation Agudat Israël shall be recognised by the British Government and the Palestine Administration absolutely on the same footing as the Zionist Organisation, especially in relation with paragraph 4 of the Mandate which refers to the Jewish Agency. 2) That every well-organised Jewish community in Palestine should equally be recognised by the Palestine Government without distinction between Zionist and non-Zionist. 3) That every well-organised Rabbinate should be recognised in the same way and given the same rights without any discrimination between Zionist and non-Zionist Rabbinates. 4) That the principle should be maintained, that with the exception of the State, no other Organisation shall have the right to levy compulsory taxation whether direct or indirect.

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