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SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, April 11, 1941
300 Noted Americans Form Committee To Back Palestine Homeland
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WASHINGTON (JTA)-4More than 300 leaders of gov
ernment, religion, education and civic life have joined in
establishing the American Ealestine Committee, under the
chairmanship of Senator Robert F. Wagner, to support the
movement for developing Pabstine as “an outpost of freedom
and social justice” and preparing the Holy Land for large-
scale colonization of hundred^of thousands of Jewish refugees
from war-torn European lands during the post-war period,
it was announced this week {ft Senator Wagner’s office. The
committee will seek public iipport for the program for the
establishment of a Jewish national home.
Senator Charles L. McNjry has been named co-chairman
and vice-chairmen are: Williin Green, president of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor; former Senator William H. King of
Utah and Monsignor John AjRyan.
A dinner in Washington in April will mark the launching
of the committee’s program of activities.
Among the members are Attor
ney General Robert H. Jacksah,
Secretary of Interior Harold L.
Ickes, Secretary of Agriculture
Claude A. Wickard, Wendell L.
Willkie, Alfred E. Smith, Clarence
Administrator, and Williarft Allen
White, and more than 150 mem
bers of both Houses of Congress
and Governors of 19 States.
Pointing out that by treaty and
Congressional enactment the U. S.
Government has formally approv-
na-
A. Dykstra, Director of Selective
Service and head of the Defense [ ed establishment of a Jewish
Mediation Board; Paul V. McNutt, tional home in Palestine, Senator
Federal Security Administrator; Wagner declared that this policy
John M. Carmody, Federal Works ; had received the public endorse-
Southeastern Zionist Region News
According to the latest figures
and advices which are coming in
from every Zionist District in this
part of the country, the local
drives for enrollment of new mem
bers in the Zionist Organization of
America are proceeding in a man
ner which indicates another sub
stantial increase for the fiscal year
1940-41.
Some of the districts already
have beaten last year’s final total
by impressive margins. Catta-
nooga is rearing the 200 mark at
this writng, which means that it
has practically doubled its 1940
membership. The Mobile Zionists
have augmented their ranks by
fully two thirds, which is also true
of Montgomery. The Augusta dis
trict has likewise exceeded last
year’s total. Enrollment of new
members and collection of dues in
most of the larger centers is pro
gressing so rapidly that a number
of them now show twice the figure
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which they did at the same time
last year.
All of this is due to a strong
realization of the importance of
Palestine not only to the Jewish
people, but as a first line of de
fence for Great Britain, and
through her for our o^n country
and the cause of democracy in
general. There is every hope that
the Zionist movement will gain
the requisite strength which will
enable it to enlist the full support
of public opinion behind the estab
lishment of a Jewish common
wealth in Palestine when the “new
order’’ of democracy will be set up.
PENSACOLA
The Pensacola Zionist District
met April 2 at the Jewish Progres
sive Club. Guest speaker was
Robert M. Travis, president of the
Southeastern Zionist Region.
Plans for intensified Zionist ac
tivity in Pensacola and in the
State of Florida were discussed by
Adalbert Freedman, Executive Di
rector of the Region.
Officers of the Pensacola Dis
trict are: M. Ellis, president, Hy
man Socloff, secretary and Harry
Ellis, treasurer.
CHATTANOOGA
President Morris Finkelstein re
ports that his district is nearing
j the 200 mark in the drive for new
members which it has been con
ducting. This means that Chatta-
! nooga will have doubled its mem-
j bership over the previous year, a
i most praiseworthy performance
which should serve as an example
and inspiration to all of us. Rabbi
Janies G. Heller will deliver a lec-
j ture before the district some time
I in May.
MONTGOMERY
President Morris Feinberg an-
j nounces that his district now has
passed the 50-mark and thus en
ters the ranks of the Zionist move-
j ment as a full-fledged chartered
unit. The campaign, which was
recently inaugurated with an ad-
| dress by Rabbi Sampson Levey of
; Selma, Ala., continues unabated.
■ There is no specific membership
j goal. The boys are out to “get
all they can.”
ment of Presidents Wilson, Hard
ing, Coolidge, Hoover and Roose
velt. In assuming the chairman
ship of the American Palestine
Committee, Senator Wagner said:
“The Jewish National Home in
Palestine has been a world sanc
tioned experiment in democracy.
It must be protected and cherished
today as an outpost of freedom
and social justice. Its continued
upbuilding must be a vital part of
a just world order when the pres
ent conflict is over. The Amer
ican Palestine Committee will aim
to give expression to the interest,
sympathy and moral support of
the American people for this hu
mane and statesmanlike cause.”
Senator McNary said Palestine
offered the greatest promise of
solution for the refugee problem.
“The solution of the age-old Jew
ish problem is as much the con
cern of enlightened Christiandom
as it is of the Jews themselves,”
he said. The Republican leader
asserted that American Jews, who
wer e seeking to provide a haven
for refugees “made homeless by
totalitarian brutality,” should be
assured that in the promotion of
this effort “they can count on the
good will and the moral support
of their Christian fellow citizens.”
Congressmen on the committee
include: Senators Alben W. Bark
ley, majority leader of the Senate;
Walter F. George, chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee; Arthur H. Vandenberg of
Michigan, Robert A. Taft of Ohio,
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of Massa
chusetts, Speaker Sam Rayburn of
the House and Representatives
John W. McCormack, majority
leader of the House; Joseph W.
Martin Jr., minority leader and
chairman of the Republican Na
tional committee.
Educators and religious leaders
include: Dr. Harry Woodburn
Chase, chancellor of New York
University; Dr. George N. Shuster,
president of Hunter College; Dr„
Harry D. Gideonse, president of
Brooklyn College; Dr. Ray Lyman
Wilbur, president of Stanford Uni-
iversity; Dr. Daniel L. Marsh, pres
ident of Boston University; Bishop
A. K. Moulton; Dr. .Daniel A. Pol
ing; Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr; Mon-
I singer Ryan and Michael Williams.
Marshall Field, Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, Dr. Mary E. Wooley,
Quincy Howe and Wythe Williams
I are also enrolled in the commit
tee.
Governors of states include:
Homer M. Adkins, Arkansas and
Spesser L. Holland, Florida.
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