Dr Silver Putting Case For Israel Aka Dr Silver Speaks (1947)

Unused / unissued footage - dates and locations may be clear / unknown. Location of events unknown. Several shots of reporters listening to a speech and taking notes. We then see Dr Abba H Silver, spokesman for the Jewish Agency, sitting in a room with a small audience. Natural sound cuts in as Dr Silver presents the Jewish viewpoint on the Palestine Question. He talks of Palestine and Israel being the historical and spiritual home of the Jewish people. He says Britain has violated the mandate handed to them after the First World War. Now the mandate has been given to the United Nations he says he hopes the conscience of mankind will ensure the progressive development of the Jewish national home. A girl in the background is seen operating a typewriter or shorthand machine. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES V