ZOA 50th Convention Closes; Demands Jewish State, Asks U.S. Take Active Role on Palestine

Reaffirmation of the principles which have guided the Zionist movement for the past half-century was embodied in a resolution adopted (##)or to the closing of the Zionist Organization of American’s 50th annual convention here, which called for international assistance to re-establish Palestine as a Jewish state and insisted upon Britain carrying out the spirit and letter of the Mandate and vesting the Jewish Agency with full powers to organize the immigration of Jews and the development of the land.

At the same time, the delegates called upon the United States Government to immediately place on record before the United Nations its traditional policy that Palestine be reconstituted a Jewish Commonwealth and to fight vigorously for that program. The convention also went on record as repudiating and condemning acts of violence committed by dissident groups in Palestine, but at the same time it expressed its "earnest desire" that all possible steps be taken to avert the danger of civil (##) within the Jewish community. Another resolution approved the administration of (##), Abba Hillel Silver and thanked him for his services.

A rally at the Manhattan Center tonight ending the four-day Golden Jubilee parley was addressed by Senators James E. Murray of Montana and Owen Brewster of Maine. Murray told the 5,000 persons attending the meeting that President Truman "is fully in accord" with the American policy on Palestine and desires to see it applied. He stated that Secretary of State Geroge C. Marshall also wanted to see the policy put into effect, but, he charged, there is a "tendency to postpone taking a clear position" within the State Department.

Brewster insisted that the problem of Palestine "will eventually be dealt with in accordance with the conscience of the world." He urged the delegates "to continue your struggle" until the day "when Palestine shall be added to the number of free and democratic United Nations."

40,000 REACHED PALESTINE SINCE 1945; IMMIGRATION SLOWED BY LACK OF CASH

Earlier, at the session on Palestine Funds, Dr. Israel Goldstein, chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, revealed that some 40,000 Jewish immigrants had been brought to Palestine since the end of the war, in addition to the 15,000 interned on Cy{SPAN}(##){/SPAN}. He declared, however, that the flow of immigrants was slowed down by a cri{SPAN}(##){/SPAN} lack of cash and appealed for further support for the United Jewish Appeal.

He reported that the Jewish Agency, Palestine Foundation Fund and the Jewish National Fund were laboring under a $45,000,000 deficit, $15,000,000 of which was in(##) during the current fiscal year. He said that the J.N.F. had spent nearly $2,000,000 in 1946 to purchase land and that nearly $10,000,000 was spent for veterans (##)tlement.

Louis Lipsky, former ZOA president, who also apoke at the closing rally, re(##)ed the history of the organization and asserted that "the whole American Jewish (##)mity with very few exceptions are now allied in spirit and devotion to the Zion(##)movement." To support this contention he cited a resolution adopted at the formation of the American Jewish Conference in 1943 at which delegates from all walks of Jewish life almost unanimously demanded the establishment of a Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine.

At an earlier session, Rudolph G. Sonneborn, national co-chairman of the U.S.A. attacked Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin as the head and front of a conspiracy to (##) "the last remnants of European Jewry to suicide or living death." He called the Haganah "the Number One priority of the Zionist Movement."

FRISCH ASKS CLEAR DIRECTIVE FOR NEW ZOA ADMINISTRATION

Baniel Frisch, newly-elected vice-president of the ZOA, who presided at last night’s political session which thrashed out the major resolutions to be presented to the convention, declared that Zionism "again stands at the perpetual crossroads of Jewish destiny." He pointed out that at a time when the U.N. inquiry committee on Palestine is due to report on its investigations the new administration must receive "a clear directive which should guide it in its work."

In a cabled message read to the delegates yesterday Field Marshal Jan Christian (##), Prime Minister of South Africa, who together with President Wilson was one of the co-authors of the Balfour Declaration, expressed his conviction that the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Palestine will give "due regard to the policy of the Jewish National Home embodied in the Balfour Declaration and the Palestine Mandate which (##) adopted by the League of Nations in an international treaty." He further urge(##) that "meas must and will be found to continue that policy and that this can be done with justice to the legitimate Arab interests also."