Support of the Zionist platform by the American Jewish Conference was asked today in a statement issued by Mrs. David de Sola Pool, national president of Hadassah.
“We take our place in the American Jewish Conference with the deep conviction that we have in Jewish Palestine a great, potent and far-reaching instrument for the salvation of the Jewish people,” the statement reads. “It has taken half a century to forge that instrument. The Jewish National Home is at once adequate and eager to give to the uprooted, wandering masses of Jewish refugees a home and a chance to rebuild their lives.
“We approach our task with the faith that dispassionate and searching discussion will lead to an understanding of our goal and appreciation of our program, which centers on the establishment of Palestine as a Jewish Commonwealth. Upon this platform we stand firm, confident that in its elaboration and implementation rests the of
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