“With the utmost harmony and mutual understanding we have concluded sessions of the Administrative Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, united and restrengthened in our resolutions,” begins a cable received from Felix M. Warburg by the United Jewish Campaign. “With a firm insistence on our just rights, and with an equally strong determination so to build that all the peoples of Palestine may live together in amity and accord, we proceed to our concrete tasks, the strengthening of colonization, the promotion of industry, the furtherance of adequate measures for health and education, the encouragement of immigration within the economic capacities of the land. This program deserves the loyal support of all Jews and builds a road towards the development of a self-dependent community living on the soil of our ancestors, who will once again produce spiritual values of benefit to all mankind.
“To give strength to our organization, we have added to the Palestine Executive of the Jewish Agency, Dr. Maurice Hexter, formerly secretary of the Boston Federation of Jewish Charities, splendid student of social economic affairs and able administrator; Dr. Werner Senator, who for years rendered distinguished service to the Joint Distribution Committee; and we have the promise of Julius Simon of New York, whose knowledge of Palestine is most valuable, to join our executive. Pinchas Rutenberg, head of the Palestine Electric Corporation, will associate himself with the problems and program of the Executive as a volunteer consultant, thus assuring coordination with the viewpoint of the Palestinian Jewish population. Oscar Wassermann, chairman of our budget and finance committee, has invited Dr. Bernard Kahn, European Director of the Joint Distribution Commitee, to associate himself with the committee as vice-chairman. Dr. Cyrus Adler of Philadelphia was unanimously elected Joint Chairman of the Council of the Agency.
“We conferred with many leaders from the countries of Eastern and Central Europe, who plead that we continue with unabated zeal and devotion to develop our program of reconstruction and aid for our brethren especially in Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Roumania and other States where millions of our people are struggling for self-support in the face of great difficulties.
“Combining the call for Palestine and for the needs of our brethren in these East European countries, the Allied Jewish Campaign has the right to expect the loyal support of every Jew who wishes to help his brethren wherever they may be.”
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