Dr. Weizmann Coming to U.S. in February in Interests of Zionism

Dr. Chaim Weizmann, former president of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency for Palestine, will visit the United States in February, 1933, in the interests of Zionism, it was announced yesterday by the American Palestine Campaign.

Dr. Weizmann’s visit will be of short duration owing to other engagements which call for his return to Europe. He was expected to come to this country in January but has been delayed because of scientific experiments he is now conducting.

Dr. Weizmann is coming here in response to a joint invitation issued by the Zionist Organization of America, the American section of the Jewish Agency for Palestine and the American Palestine Campaign.

At the same time the American Palestine Campaign in a statement by its national chairman, Louis Lipsky, announced that a national conference on fund-raising for Palestine will be held in the middle of January.

“It is recognized that some of the methods now being utilized in fund-raising activities are obsolete and must be changed to meet the new conditions both here and in Palestine,” Mr. Lipsky declares. “The purpose of the conference will be to revise present methods and to consider carefully the practices and psychological approach used during the past decade which seem to have lost their effectiveness.”

Communities throughout the country are urged to wind up their campaigns so that a new campaign may be launched without overhanging obligations.

“Next year’s campaign of the Jewish Agency will have to enlarge its work for the Keren Hayesod,” the statement points out. “Faced by menacing deficits, the Keren Hayesod has been staggering along under a burden that threatens its existence and the existence of the various activities it has sponsored since 1921. The development of the new immigration depends upon the financial resources of the Keren Hayesod.”