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ZIONIST CONGRESS
IN SESSION
(Continued from page 8)
In practically complete control of the
j*t ( -ngress, the Laborites twice won
•imatic victories over their bitter op-
the Revisionists, when the Con-
rf „ cle<ted a presidium from which the
fvi*ioni"ts were excluded and fahen it
irrwhehningly rejected the Revisionist
Lpo*aI to support the anti-German boy-
ott in favor of a resolution expressing
l on^ress’ horror over the persecution
• the Jews in Germany, and calling
m the civilized world and the League
. Nations not only to support the Jewish
I pie in its struggle to regain its rights
a Germany but to help them rebuild
ilestine as the Jewish National Home,
r debates that preceded both actions
ere stormy and each time the Revi-
mt' left the Congress hall, Dr. Leon
lot/kin was elected president of the
rrtidium and Menahem Ussishkin, M.
ufeisen, M. Kaplansky, Isaac Sprinzak,
i Kaplan and Isaac Gruenbaum, vice-
residents.
The resolution on the German Jews
ipressed an emphatic protest against the
litlerite government policy of outlawing
he Jews, and asserted that the Zionists
tf the world would not rest until this
utlawry has been rescinded and that
uev consider it their duty to raise a
llemn protest, and affirmed that “it is the
duty of the civilized world and the
league of Nations to give actual help to
the Jewish people in its work of recon-
struction of the Jewish national home as
well as to support the Jewish people in
' struggle to regain its rights in Ger-
>any. The resolution also appealed to
the Jews of the world to recognize that
the only solution to the Jewish question
i* Zionism.
While the Congress was awaiting the
election of the presidium, Professor Selig
Hrodetsky, head of the Jewish Agency’s
"iitira 1 department, gave a detailed re-
>ew of the Agency’s relations with the
British government since 1929. Saying
ut the decision of the 17th Zionist Con
gress to accept Premier MacDonald’s
tter to-Dr. Weizmann had been wise,
•’r. Brodetzky noted that generally a
•ore favorable attitude prevails toward
Zionist work both in London under the
n ew Colonial Secretary and in Jerusalem
■ader High Commissioner Wauchope, al-
a°ugh many vicissitudes accompanied
aese improved relations, especially as re-
•■ar.b the contemplated land restrictions
an 'i immigration. Touching on the re-
t Sir Lewis French and the $10,-
loan to Palestine, Professor Bro-
• ft A' expressed the fear that the con-
-mpi.ited projects would mostly favor the
'-ah* because of the general belief that
l,rfat Britain must look after the Arabs,
'fiilc 'he Jews can look after themselves.
f ' d it was a base calumny to ac-
ie Jews of having displaced the
'-ah. from the land, a charge which is
! 'P r ed by the government’s own fig-
r ' Respite this, he said new land leg-
l a, i 1 was reported about to become
t rft,,e * Professor Brodetzky informed
>f ( ngress that the Jewish Agency had
1 for more time to submit its views
legislation, but if the British gov-
nrT it s statement means that it has
epted the recommendations of the
report and that the danger of
control of land transfers has been
•ted then the statement removes
s t serious danger.
Fren
gen?
flimi
the r
. essor Brodetzky’s report demanded
J' r,e agricultural program in Pale-
e based on the principle of parity
for Jews and Arabs and that there should
be a greater Jewish participation in
public service and government works be
cause of the large Jewish contribution to
public revenues. He voiced grave con
cern at the government’s intention to es
tablish a legislative council which is lia
ble to mean the subjection of the Jews
by the Arab majority. “The Jews don’t
look upon Palestine as a station on the
route of the Wandering Jew but as our
terminus,’’ he declared, insisting that
Palestine be a land where the Jews can
have national freedom without which the
life of any nation is meaningless.
The paramount question for the Man
datory Power, he asserted, is to display
a greater understanding of the large Jew
ish problem because this is the real mean
ing of the Mandate, Professor Brodetzky
demanded that the doors of Palestine
should be opened wide to the tens of
thousands of Jewish refugees from Pale
stine. Within the next few decades Pale
stine has room for hundreds of thousands
of Jews and millions more in the next
few generations, he declared.
Dr. Arthur Ruppin, chairman of the
commission for the colonization of Ger
man Jews in Palestine, informed the Con
gress that within the next five years Pale
stine could absorb 100,000 Jews. He ex
pressed the belief that there would be
no obstacle placed in the way of organ
izing for the immigration of Jews from
Germany. The rest of the Jews in Ger
many must be transferred to other coun
tries, he said urging that the United States
relax its immigration laws to admit some
of them and that the League of Nations
undertake to place 50,000 German Jews
in countries other than Palestine.
Heschel Farbstein, member of the Ex
ecutive, reported on the growth of indus
try in Palestine and complained that the
government was not helpful because it
had failed to protect new industries,
had neglected to provide for the free
admission of raw materials and ignored
the demands of industry in allotting im
migration certificates. He also noted
that the Jewish Agency Executive had
failed to realize the importance of in
dustries which employ only Jews, and
demanded the abrogation of the rule
granting labor certificates only to those
under 25 years of age. The importance
of extensive cultivation of the soil so as
to enable it to increase its yield tenfold
was stressed by Moses Wilkansky. Berl
Locker, also a member of the Zionist
Executive, expressed gratification at the
large number of voters in the Zionist
Congress elections. He dwelt on the need
of strengthening of the Zionist Organiza
tion’s permanent membership and de
clared that the abnormal shekel system
had given all shekel payers the right to
Zionist citizenship at the same time that
it had allowed the Revisionists to come
in and out of the organization according
to their whim. Locker advocated the
adoption of strict discipline and sanctions
against those who break Congress deci
sion. He also condemned the Revisionist
libels against the Zionist funds. The
Congress court reported that 46 countries
were represented at the Congress by 316
delegates. Only Russia, Germany and
Persia had no accredited delegates. More
than 800,000 Zionists had participated in
the Congress elections, an increase of over
200,000 since the last Congress. The
court recommended the establishment of
permanent shekel boards in every country
to function throughout the year and not
only just before the Congress elections.
Serious differences of opinion appear
to have broken out among the Jabotinsky
Revisionists, with the Palestine Revision
ists demanding a more aggressive policy.
The American delegation has been split
in two, one group being headed by Louis
Lipsky and Morris Rothenberg and the
other by Dr. Stephen S. Wise and Robert
Szold.
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