The American Government’s current “investment” in the future of Israel will pay dividends of “peace and stability in the Near East,” Bartley C. Crum, former member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, today told the 500 delegates here at the 43rd annual convention of Bnai Zion.
Mr. Crum declared that by extending economic assistance to Israel, the U.S. Government was “strengthening the hand of democracy in a critical corner of the world.” Other speakers at today’s sessions included Dr. Harris J. Levine, former president of the organization who now heads the Jewish National Fund of America, and Herman Z. Quittman, national secretary of Bnai Zion.
Last night it was announced that the organization is planning to sponsor a second agricultural settlement in Israel for hundreds of immigrant families. The settlement, to be named in honor of Dr. Levine, will be situated in the northern part of Israel, near the Syrian frontier.
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