A two-day national convention of the Zionist Organization of Canada concluded here last night after adopting resolutions hailing President Roosevelt’s creation of the War Refugee Board, thanking the Canadian Government for its recent decision to admit some of the refugees now in Portugal, and demanding the abrogation of the White Paper on Palestine and the establishment of a Jewish Commonwealth there, to be incorporated within the British Empire.
Other resolutions expressed gratification at the growing rapprochement between the Jews of Russia and the rest of the democratic world and the Soviet Government’s evidence of interest in Jewish Palestine; and voiced the Canadian Zionists’ desire for closer relations with the Zionist Emergency Council in the United States. The convention also decided to establish a colony in Palestine in honor of A. J. Freiman, who retired as president of the organization after 25 years at its helm.
To succeed Mr. Freiman, who was forced to resign because of ill health, the convention elected a praesidium consisting of Samuel Schwiseberg and Michael Garber of Montreal and Samuel Sacks of Toronto. Rabbi Jesse Schwartz, executive director of the Federation, reported that in the past three years the various Canadian Zionist groups have raised approximately $2,000,000.
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