Provides for Jewish Parliament

The charter provides for the establishment of a Jewish Parliament to be elected by all Jews, whether official members of the New Zionist Organization or not. The parliament is to be known as the Zionist National Assembly, and will be convoked once in three years.

A resolution calling upon all Jews and non-Jews the world over to help fight “for the self-defence of German Jewry” and to make the boycott against Germany world-wide and complete, was adopted last night following a report by S. Jacobi on persecution of Jews in the Third Reich and the Palestine-German barter pact.

Jacobi, a Revisionist leader of London, stated that only 39 per cent of the goods imported into Palestine from Germany by Haavara, Palestine trustee office for the execution of the transfer agreement, was actually sent out of Germany by Jews. He reported that until July 31, 1935 Haavara imported goods worth 34,000,000 marks from Germany under the agreement, but paid out to immigrants only 19,000,000 marks and still owes them 6,000,000 marks. Twenty-two per cent of the entire income of Haavara went for administrative expenses, Jacobi charged.

The transfer agreement has not only been of no help to German Jews, Jacobi declared, but it has actually done them much harm. Until the transfer agreement was concluded, every Jew leaving Germany could legally take with him $5,000, he said. After the transfer agreement, Nazis prohibited Jews to take any cash out of Germany.

Condemnation of the barter pact was voiced in a resolution adopted by the congress following Jacobi’s report. The resolution calls upon the Jews of Palestine and the rest of the world to denounce the agreement and call for its immediate termination.