Hadassah Convention Decides to Intensify Investigation of Arab-jewish Problems

An intensified investigation of Arab-Jewish problems, under the leadership of Mrs. Edward Jacobs, honorary vice-president of the Hadassah and the only women member of the executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, was decided upon today at a closed session of the Hadassah convention at which post-war political questions were discussed.

The convention heard a report asking for participation by the United States in the problems of the Near East. In a statement made public today, Mrs. Jacobs said that the solutions of the Arab-Jewish problems offered so far have not been able to satisfy all parties concerned.

“We Zionists must come prepared with facts on our achievements, on our vision for the future, on the potentialities of absorption for millions of our people by Palestine after the war, with economic, social and political guide-posts, which will put the Zionists case clearly and accurately before the democratic peoples who will determine the future international relationship of the victorious nations after the struggle is over,” Mrs. Jacobs said.

Emanuel Neumann, member of the Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs, addressing the closed convention session, surveyed the possible methods of United States cooperation in the Near East. He asserted that there is more confidence in American justice and disinterestedness than in that of any other power.

“In the Near East today there are some twenty-million people now subsisting largely in poverty and squalor, but there will be room for a hundred million there in the future, once a plan of development is undertaken on an American scale, with American methods, “Mr. Neurmann said.” There is room to spare for Arabs and their descendants, for millions of Jews in Palestine, and for the Christian groups in Lebanon and Iraq.”