Intimating that the World Zionist Congress, which is to be convened in February, may find it preferable to transfer the center of the Zionist Organization from London to the United States, Dr. Chaim Weizmann announced tonight that although he had resigned as president of the Zionist Organization and of the Jewish Agency, both he and the Zionist Executive would remain in office until the Congress met.
He added that a meeting of the political commission of the Zionist Organization will be held in London, November 3, and that a mass meeting had been called for Monday night at the Pavilion Theatre in White Chapel. Dr. Weizmann, d’Avigdor Goldsmid and others will speak. Nahum Sokolow, chairman of the Zionist Executive, will preside.
Discussing the details of the Simpson report, Dr. Weizmann particularly objected to what he called the unjustified attack on the Jewish laborers of Palestine “who are chiefly responsible for the success of the Jewish agricultural colonization”. He also voiced resentment at the insinuation that the Jewish laborers are Communistic although “it is known that they are the most bitter opponents of Communism which they consider their greatest enemy”.
Dr. Weizmann expressed dissatisfaction with the British government’s endeavor to link Jewish and Arab unemployment while “Arab unemployment was vague and indefinite and Jewish immigrants were dependent on Jewish money from foreign countries which has reached $200,000,000 in the course of ten years from which not only the Arabs benefited but also largely the Palestine administration itself”.
Dr. Weizmann said, “We hope for peace in Palestine and we shall go on doing as much as we can, waiting for better times but the Zionist Congress may find that it is preferable to transfer the center of the Zionist Organization to America. But there are also other possibilities on which the Congress may act and which I cannot foresee.
“We have on several occasions suggested that the government call a round table conference with the Jews and Arabs at which various questions could be fought out but the government for some reason or other has not accepted the suggestion, which is no fault of ours”, he concluded.
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