An appeal to the Eighteenth Zionist Congress, which opens August 21 at Prague, to concentrate its endeavors on practical measures for the settlement of German Jews in Palestine and to refrain from diffuse discussions on the situation which would tend to turn the Congress into a public meeting, is made editorially today by the Judische Rundschau, official organ of the German Zionist Federation.
“While not expecting anyone to welcome the German Jewish situation,” the Rundschau declares, “at the same time it is not the duty of the Congress to declare war, but in a Zionist spirit, through practical measures to bring about spiritual encouragement and relief in the situation.
“Perhaps the time has not yet arrived to tackle this matter successfully. This is the reason why German Zionists urged that the present Congress should not be held or that it should be postponed. Since, however, the Congress was not postponed, it is the duty of the Congress management and executive to establish a spirit of creative responsibility dealing only with the two main problems of Palestine work and the German Jewish situation, adopting practical measures to enable Jewish mass emigration from Germany to Palestine.”
German Zionists are not participating in the Congress at Prague. Many German Zionist officials who were in Prague have left the city in order not to lay themselves open to Nazi reprisals for any action taken there.
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