David Ben Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive, who returned last week from a visit to the United States, told the JTA in an interview that the Jewish future in Palestine was almost secured if the Jews of Palestine and the U.S. would act in a spirit of Zionism. He expressed firmest belief in a British victory, with the utmost assistance of the U.S.
A meeting of the Zionist General Council was called for next week to hear Ben Gurion’s report on the general political and Zionist situations in the United Kingdom and the U.S.
Scores of new Jewish industries have been established in Palestine since the outbreak of the war, Moshe Shertok, head of the political department of the Jewish Agency, told a press conference. Shertok said unemployment in urban centers had decreased and that thousands of new immigrants had been absorbed by the country.
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