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American Delegation Had No Program at Basls Congress, Goldberg Charges

October 9, 1927
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A ## view of the proceedings of the ## Congress and the ## at the American ## delegation was taken by Abraham Goldberg, whose meeting from the Administration Committee at the last Zionists ## in Atlantic City ##sed considerable com## among certain groups of Zionists.

Mr. Goldberg, who returned to New York last week declared in a statement be issued that there was a great disappointment at the Zionist Congress when the American delegation if which at much was expected and which was ## the congress of all the other countries had of real program it fitting had at the solution in the ## that Palestine is during and simply ## with demanding a few changes in the personal as well as in ## of ##. These demands was reading ## her as a program ## and ##–## it seems to me that American Jews in general and the Zionists in particular have not yet realized the great role imposed upon them by destiny, that they are the guiding ## for the drifting Jewish ships. Our failure would not be a failure in the part of Jewry, but might mean ex-anguishing the hope of Jewry the world ##.

“At the Zionists Congress in Basic the ## were ready to receive any message the American delegation would impart and any steatite they might offer.

## to speak all of the delegation of which I was a member, but I was say in the interest of crash that what we had to offer in the mature of a ## to the great problems conference ## was very ## and ## of any ## planning. We must ## prepared to the next congress, for we want to save the ## if this ## which was ## by the best blood of our rate. The last form congresses have not managed at raise this presage. This congress was a disappointment in the ranks of Jewry. The congresses in the next ten years will be only when America Jewry will make them” Mr. Goldberg declared.

Councillor Leo Lilienthal, one of the leaders of Liberal Jewry in Germany, died a few weeks before his seventieth birthday. He was for many years a synd## of the Berlin Jewish community. In the last few years, he was a member of the Executive of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Prussia, where he took charge of the legal side of the work of amending the Jewish laws in Prussia of ## with a view to braging about the formation of a Federation of Jewish Communities in the German Feder## Republic.

The Philadelphia Federation of Jewish Charities will get $### by the will of Harare Haze providing the ####eare## heirs other congress are made to charity in the will which disposes of an estate app## at $##.

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