Samuel H. Daroff, president of the American Jewish League for Israel, declared today that “the time demands a central, single Zionist organization in the United States, an organization freed of the strictures and limitations imposed by party-thinking and party-structure.
Mr. Daroff made the proposal in a letter to a group of American Jewish leaders, in which he said he was not alone in proposing such an idea, “Thinkers and leaders of the various Zionist sectors have been inclining more and more toward the same plan, he stressed.
Asserting he believed that the Zionist movement would, “for many decades to come, have to face and contend with many as yet unfulfilled tasks, ” he added he also believed that “the fulfilment of those tasks” was being hampered by “a feature of Zionism which has now outlived its use and, by its retention, merely serves as an obstruction to the effective execution of our obligations. “
“Now is the time for the dissolution of party lines in Zionism, if we hope to eliminate the band of overlapping and duplication of work and concentrate our best talents on a unified effort,” he asserted. He urged those who agreed with him to consider a meeting to “discuss what is to be done to achieve this goal.”
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