Official Program of New American Z. O. Administration Demands Fulfillment in Letter and Spirit of Ba

The Zionist Organization of America demands the fulfillment in letter and spirit of the Balfour Declaration and the Palestine Mandate, and has accordingly instructed its delegates who will attend the meeting of the Administrative Committee of the Jewish Agency at Berlin on August 29 to stand for a “firm and positive policy,” according to the immediate official program which has just been adopted by the newly-elected administration of the Zionist Organization and which was made public yesterday in the form of a letter addressed to officers of the various Zionist regions and districts throughout the United States by Robert Szold, chairman of the administration.

The communication is the first official document issued by the new administration of American Zionists and states the ideological program as well as the prospective activities of the Organization. An indication of a firmer policy with respect to Great Britain is seen in the terms of the program, as well as the probability of more extensive commercial undertakings in Palestine promoted by American Zionist effort.

EXPECTS AID OF ALL SYMPATHETIC JEWS

Referring to the union of Zionist forces that was created at the last Zionist convention at Cleveland, the document goes on to state that the Zionist Organization expects the cooperation not only of enrolled Zionists but of all American Jews sympathetic to Zionist aims but not actually registered in the ranks. This section reads as follows:

“We are encouraged to believe that not only the enrolled Zionists but great masses of Jews in sympathy with Zionism are prepared to stand up and be counted for the cause. We have therefore advised our delegates to the European gatherings that they can labor for a firm and positive policy in all things relating to the Jewish National Home with the assurance that American Zionists will rally to the cause and make whatever sacrifices of time, effort and money may be re-required.

“We need not tell you that all of us should stand squarely behind the Balfour Declaration, the Mandate, and all that which, in letter and spirit, is involved in the development of a real Jewish National Home in Palestine. We shall rely less on protestations of faith, than on efforts which, with your aid, will make evident that American Zionism is a firm rock on which our colleagues in Europe can rely, and on which the Yishub (Palestine) can build.

DEEDS NOT WORDS COUNT

“Deeds not words count. There are a thousand things to do for the upbuilding of Palestine, and in that mass of work, the program of the Zionist Organization—difficult and complicated as it is—is merely one item. But the Zionist Organization of America is the instrument through which we, in cooperation with the World Zionist Organization or the Jewish Agency, can make our contribution to what, beyond question, is the greatest task Jews have engaged in since the days of Ezra and Nehemiah.”

The communication emphasizes eight points in the program of activities. These concern an increased membership for the organization, the immediate liquidation of the deficit, the holding of memorial services for the martyrs who died in the Palestine disturbances in August, 1929, cooperation with the drives of the Allied Jewish Campaign, the proposal to name a very large Committee on Economic Development in Palestine which would do “a great deal for the practical upbuilding in Palestine”; informing public opinion of the true aims and achievements of Zionism, and a political program which will be made public after the American Zionist representatives return from the international gatherings on Palestine being held in Berlin.