Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

Twin Set Sweaters do double duty Pull on the gay jacquard sweater, and then slip the button-up jacket on over it, and you have a twin- set that will be the envy of the campus! Comes in green, wine, blue and brown, sizes 34 to 38. Corduroy Black, brown and green Skirts $Q.98 WORLD ZIONIST CONGRESS IN SESSION With a thrilling and moving appeal to the civilized world to put an end once and for all to the shame of anti-Semitic persecution, Dr. Nahum Sokolow, pres ident of the World Zionist Organization opened in Prague the 18th World Zionist Congress in a dramatic address in which he called on mankind to help the Jewish people build their own country in Pales tine. Before plunging into the realities of the present crisis in Jewish life, the venerable leader of the Zionist movement paid tribute to the Czechoslovakian gov ernment and its great champion of justice, President Thomas Masaryk, to Great Britain “whose greatest men rose in pro test against the injustice of atrosities and racial passions,” to the governments of France, Poland, and Holland for granting asylums to the German-Jewish refugees, to Italy, where “there is no Jewish ques tion because all are equal before the law,’ and to the United States, “whose great Jewish population, is devoted to the high mission of their free and generous country.” After noting that the Congress is meet ing in a time of trouble and suffering for the Jewish people, Dr. Sokolow de clared that “the whole tragedy of the exile has now revealed itself. Anti-Semi tism recently struck a deadly blow to the Jews in the Diaspora. We are suddenly faced with the ruins of Jewish emanci pation in a great European country and the edifice built up by generations has been swept away by a tempest.” Pointing out that Dr. llerzl had prophetically fore seen the avalanche, Dr. Sokolow turned to the “falsehoods of assimilation” and said that “in Germany, of all countries, where the assimiiationists had deleted Zion from their prayer books, assimila tion has become a delusion and remains a bitter irony of history.” Dr. Sokolow also took occasion to re fer to the futility of philanthropy, saying that the true Zionists were dreamers but those Jews who were not Zionists are sleepwalkers. Philanthropy, he asserted, was laudable, “but philanthropy alone has never in history saved a people whose existence was threatened.” Millions have been squandered to help the victims of pogroms only to arouse the greed of pogromists for fresh excesses, l)r. Soko low asserted. At this point in his address, which was delivered in Hebrew, French and Eng lish, Dr. Sokolow dramatically exclaimed: "Jewish people, we cannot go on like this, lime presses. The ground is giving un der our feet. Whatever isn’t too late to be saved must be saved now. The pur pose of the Zionist Congress is to appear publicly before the world with our thoughts, grievances and demands. Zion ism must now become the concern of the entire Jewish people and of the human race. A change must be brought in the relations of the world with us, as what wis cannot continue.” Dr. Sokolow then submitted the fol lowing questions from the Zionist Execu tive to mankind "with a sense of responsi bility for the life or death of a nation”: "Are the Jewish people to be bereft of their historical land, and furthermore, are they to be refused admission to one coun try after another? Isn’t this a mockery on civilization? Where are Europe, the civil ized world and the League of Nations? Where is the Germany of Goethe, Schiller, Lessing and Emperor Frederick II who branded anti-Semitism as the disgrace of By JACOB FISHMAN Special to The Southern Israelite President Nahum Sokolow Rose in Protest the ccntuiy? Endless international meet ings are held with the aim of achieving disarmament and ending wars by under standings between the nations, but isn’t the persecution of Jews in Germany also a war, with all its horrors, and waged with heroism or glory against a peaceful and defenseless Jewish population, in cluding old men, women and children? We are not hostile to Germany, but are rather admirers of her culture and we wish peace, but when our existence and honor are at stake we must raise our voices. We cannot overcome this tragedy by discouragement, self-abasement or speeches. The Jewish question must be put to the world and to Israel from this platform bluntly.” Dr. Sokolow then addressed a passion ate appeal to mankind, to the apostles of liberty and the protectors of the weak, in the course of which he declared “you said after the World War that you would not allow tyrants to persecute innocent vic tims and you proclaimed the rights of minorities and weak peoples. Show your good faith. You must again appeal to the civilized world to check anti-Semitism. We are grateful for kind speeches and hospitality, but these do not offer a solu tion. We need a sure refuge. If it is impossible to restore the refugees to the country of their adoption or to receive them elsewhere then the country of their ancestors must be given to them. This is the problem facing the international world.” Turning from the international sphere to internal Jewish problems, Dr. Sokolow warned that Zionists must not fritter away their energies in family quarrels. “Our aims at this time,” he said, “must be active unity in Palestine, the creation of an idealistic and historic united front in the Diaspora, perseverance by way of auto-emancipation, active furtherance of our own labors and the creation of our own, preferably national, means. These would unite all Zionists irrespective of parties. This applies also to our relation ship to other Jewish bodies despite di versities of opinion. Jewish org.miza- tions must maintain common ground in order to save Jewish lives.” Picturing the recent prosperity of Pale*, tine, Dr. Sokolow said "the Land of Promise now begins to be the Land of Fulfillment and our forward march it assured. Erez Israel has ceased to be merely the concern of Zionism. It ha* be come a great national cause as well as i shelter for suffering Jews and perhap* also for the anti-Zionists and people who cannot claim Aryan grandmothers. “There are two solutions to the prob lem, he continued. “One is easy and the other is difficult. One is popular and momentary but in the long run u*elc« and disappointing. ITte other is tediout and severe but the only one leading to the goal. The easier way is protesting, arguing and raising hope. The difficult way is to increase the Zionists tenfold by turning the minds of Jewry toward Zionism by propaganda and education. “Here Dr. Sokolow appealed for Hebrew education as being fundamental to Zion ism. In concluding his address the president of the World Zionist Organization ex pressed the hope that a kindly Providence would guide the Congress in the effort*, that the salvation of the Jewish people would be furthered, that Palestine would make a signal advance in the fulfillment of the prophetic promise that it would become a peaceful, secure and happy home for oppressed Jews, and that Zion ism might inspire the whole Jewish peo ple and the generous friends of humanity the world over, uniting them in brother hood and love and in the cause of justice and equality between man and man and between nations. When Dr. Sokolow appeared on the platform the Congress hall wa* so crowded that hundreds of people could not gain admission. There was silence in the hall until Vladimir Jabotinsky, Revisionist leader, entered. He was greeted with cheers and boos. Before the speeches began, the audience was en tertained by choral singing by a choir led by Vinaver from Berlin. The ab sence of Dr. Chaim Weizmann was widely commented upon. The representa tive of the Czechoslovakian government, M. Pavel, and the spokesman for the city of Prague, M. Meltzer, greeted the Con gress in Czech. Dr. Gravey, representa tive of the British embassy, declared Great Britain was anxious to carry out its obligations under the Mandate in full. Neville Laski, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, speaking in be half of the Board and the Joint Foreign Committee of the Board and the Anglo* Jewish Association, said that his presence emphasized the solidarity of the Jewish race and encouraged the Zionist work of settling German Jews in Palestine. Th‘* was the first time that a president of the Board of Deputies had addressed the Congress. Berl Katzenelson, editor of the Palestine Labor Daily, Davaar, gave a lengthy eulogy of the late Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff. Appearing in work clothe*, he was in striking contrast to the formal attire of the other speakers. No one spoke in German. On the tribune was hung a panel with Hebrew letters, read- ing “Arlosoroff, Zichron El Everocb The Congress instructed Dr. Sokolow to send a cabl* of consolation to V *• Arlosoroff. The singing of Hatik' •' closed the first session. (Please turn to page 13) [8] ■ THE SOUTHERN ISRAELII