Professor Selig Brodetzky, member of the World Zionist Executive, left for Geneva today where he will be joined by Leo Motzkin of Paris and Deputy Isaac Gruenbaum of Poland. The three men will take up the German-Jewish question with various delegates with a view to finding ways and means to facilitate the settlement of German Jews in Palestine and acquaint League of Nations circles with the decisions of the Eighteenth World Zionist Congress regarding an appeal to the League of Nations for an international loan for this purpose.
The congress, which met at Prague last month, voted to appeal to the League for an international loan to aid in the settlement of German Jews in Palestine and in the rebuilding of a Jewish national home there. The proposal was made by American representatives to the congress.
The Zionist leaders at Geneva will not submit concrete proposals concerning the loan at the present session of the assembly, but will attempt to learn the League’s views on the matter.
WEIZMANN VISIT TO HELP
It is learned that the visit here during the assembly session of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, head of the Zionist drive to aid the German Jews, and the conclusions of the Mandates Commission which the assembly will have to ratify will perhaps help to induce discussion regarding German-Jewish settlement in Palestine, which now belongs in Dr. Weizmann’s sphere of activities.
Professor Brodetzky will cooperate with Leonard Montefiore and Norman Bentwich British Jewish leaders, who are in Geneva seeking appointment of a League commissioner to supervise the German-Jewish refugee problem.
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