The Sixteenth Zionist Congress is the “funeral Congress” for Zionism, declares the “Emes,” Communist Yiddish daily, in a long article on the occasion of the opening session at Zurich. The Zionists capitulated before Marshall who, through the extended Jewish Agency, is “Morganizing” Zionism for “American imperialistic colonial purposes, just as Dawes is putting under Morgan control entire Europe,” the paper asserts.
“If the Fifteenth Congress was a ‘crisis Congress’, the Sixteenth will be a ‘liquidation Congress’,” avers the “Emes.” Now the political Zionist work will become the monopoly of the Agency while the Zionist Organization activities will be limited to cultural propaganda only, the paper states.
The “Emes” quotes Felix M. Warburg as having said in Munich that in Palestine no one thinks of establishing a Jewish country. “Hoover’s blessings for Zionism and Marshall’s joining the Agency derive from the same source, namely, strengthening (Continued on Page 4)
America’s influence wherever possible,” declares the Communist organ in its attack.
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