In a resolution adopted unanimously to-day the Administrative National Committee of the Zionist Organisation of America, meeting at Philadelphia, calls upon the Zionist World Organisation to enter into negotiations with Great Britain with a view to establishing a more definite relationship between the Mandatory Power and the Jewish people, in matters affecting immigration and land acquisition, and the full implementing of the Balfour Declaration and the Palestine Mandate, and the promises made in Mr. Ramsay MacDonald’s authoritative letter of interpretation, which the Palestine Administration, the resolution says, is not fulfilling.
The resolution goes on to demand the working out of practical steps for co-operation between the Palestine Administration and the Jewish Agency for several years ahead, to provide openings for Jewish immigration and colonisation in the large and sparsely inhabited territories between the River Jordan and the eastern boundary of Palestine, as contemplated by Article 25 of the Palestine Mandate.
(In the territories lying between the Jordan and the eastern boundary of Palestine as ultimately determined, Article 25 of the Palestine Mandate reads, the Mandatory shall be entitled with the consent of the Council of the League of Nations, to postpone or withhold application of such provisions of this Mandate as he may consider inapplicable to the existing local conditions, and to make such provision for the administration of the territories as he may consider suitable to those conditions, provided no action shall be taken which is inconsistent with the provisions of Article 15, 16 and 18-which provide for freedom of conscience and the free exercise of all forms of worship, the right of each Community to maintain its own schools in its own language, that there shall be no discrimination against religious or eleemosynary bodies of all faiths in Palestine,
and that there shall be no discrimination against the nationals of any State Member of the League of Nations, or against goods originating in or destined for any of the said States).
The resolution was adopted after a speech by Rabbi Dr. Stephen S. #ise, who said that they were tired of dealing with underlings, and that it was necessary to deal direct with Great Britain.
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