American Zionists Call Upon U.S. Government to Furnish Arms for Jewish State

The Zionist Organization of America today called on the Government of the United States “to facilitate the acquisition by the Jewish Agency for Palestine, through appropriate arrangements, of adequate military equipment for defense and security uses in Palestine.” At the same time, it also urged the U.S. Government “to make available the necessary ships and facilities for the transportation of large numbers of Jews to Palestine for the resettlement in the Jewish State.”

The move made by the Z.O.A. is a part of the new policy program of the organization formulated at the recent meeting of its National Administrative Council, under the chairmanship of Dr. Emanuel Neumann. The resolution calling for American government aid to the Jewish state emphasizes that the lack of adequate military equipment for defense and security of the state “would severely handicap the preservation ## and order in the event of continued disturbances inspired by intransigent ## leaders.”

Another resolution called upon the U.N. to prevail upon “Arab governmental and other leaders whose actions are in defiance of the decision of the Assembly to cease and desist from creating and causing conditions constituting a threat to the peace.” it is so urged the U.N. to initiate effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace.

The policy resolutions assured the Arab inhabitants of Palestine “that the Jewish state will live in accordance with the verse of the Bible inscribed upon the American Liberty Bell (“Proclaim liberty throughout the land, to all the inhabitants theof.”) “It is a foremost purpose of the Jewish people to establish and preserve ## and friendship with the neighboring nations of Palestine and the Arab people.”

Pledging maximum support in campaigns for funds required for the protection, transportation, absorption and colonization of Jewish emigrants into Palestine, the ## A. decided that “a special and adequate sum must be made available in the next sixty days for the defense and security of Jewish Palestine.” It instructed its administration “to take appropriate steps, in consultation with existing fund-raising agencies, to ensure such adequate provision for defense and security.”