Ben Gurion Asks Palestine Youth for ‘sacrifices’; 6,400 Settlers Await Land

David Ben Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive, yesterday called on Palestine Jewish youth to make “the utmost efforts and sacrifices” to defend Palestine. He declared before the seventh annual conference of Jewish youth organizations: “What can Jewish youth give to Zionism? Life. What can Zionism give to Jewish youth? An ideal.”

Meanwhile, one “youth” who has answered the call for enlistment is 65-year-old Dr. Abraham Schwadron, owner of the biggest collection of photographs and autographs in Palestine, who has just joined the army.

The Tnuva cooperative society announced its banana crop totalled 2,700 tons. A first shipment to Russia of 220 tons has been sent and further exports are expected shortly.

A total of 6,400 agricultural laborers who are qualified candidates for settlement art awaiting their turn to obtain land. Their full settlement requires about 160,000 dunams, while the Jewish National Fund’s total reserve is 3,700 dunans, of which a substantial portion requires amelioration to render it fit for immediate settlement. This year’s drop in JNF receipts is restricting the fund’s activities, despite otherwise favorable conditions, it was said.

With L130,000 transmitted by the British Central Council for Jewish Refugees in recent years the J.N.F. has acquired 15,000 dunans of land for German Jewish settlement of various types, enabling about 1,200 persons to settle on the land. A further L24,000 awaiting transmission will be used to expand the program.

An illustrated booklets in Polish on Jewish achievements in Palestine issued by the Representation of Polish Jewry for Polish troops in Palestine has proved a great success among the thousands of Polish officers and men in the Holy Land. The preface expresses hope that the Polish soldiers will return to Poland with happy memories of their stay in Palestine and will help create cordial relations between Jews and Poles in the future Poland.