Whether Palestine should become a real home or only a spiritual center is, as a controversial question, now obsolete, Professor Selig Brodetsky told the Berlin Zionist Federation while making a short stay here during his trip from Warsaw to London.
Professor Brodetsky, who is the head of the Political Department of the Jewish Agency, was addressing a meeting called under the slogan “United Action in Zionism—United Action in Palestine.”
STRESSES CONCENTRATION NEED
Surveying the general situation of the Jews and Zionism, the professor laid emphasis on the necessity of a concentration of all Zionist forces.
After picturing the transformation Jewish life has undergone in the last thirty years, he said Jewish immigration into Palestine can be compared to the widespread movement to the United States before the World War.
SEES MILLIONS LIVING THERE
“The 300,000 Jews who are at present living in Palestine are only to be viewed as a sample of the many millions who shall in future populate the homeland,” he declared.
The president of the Berlin Zionist Federation, Herr Benno Cohn, expressed his satisfaction that the contact between the German Zionists and the executive organ of the Zionist World Movement had been strengthened by Professor Brodetsky’s visit.
Dr. Franz Meyer, speaking on behalf of the Zionist movement in Germany, expressed the hope that the movement in Germany would be able to overcome its internal dissensions and could devote more attention than hitherto to its constructive dutues.
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