Jewish National Fund Conference in Liverpool: Scheme for Adoption of Colonies in Palestine.

The Biennial Conference of the Jewish National Fund for Great Eritain and Ireland was opened here this morning. Mr. R. B. Solomon, the President, delivered the presidential address.

The last Conference held in September 1930, the report presented to the Conference recalls, was an emergency gathering prompted by the events in Palestine and Mr. Leopold Schen’s resignation from the position of President Since June, Mr. Schen has been acting as the representative of the Jewish National Fund in the British Empire.

The year just concluded was a difficult one for the Zionist movement, the report says. The Jewish National Fund was particularly affected by the Simpson Report and by the severe economic depression. Difficult though times have been, it adds, it is a matter of concern that it has been possible to increase the receipts only slightly during the year.

In connection with the 30th. anniversary of the Jewish National Fund, which occurs this year, and the 50th. anniversary of Binyan Ha’aretz and the Bilu, the Pioneers of Land Redemption, the Conference is asked to call on the Jewish National Fund Commissions in Great Britain and Ireland each to adopt a colony in Palestine and to undertake to collect over an agreed period a sum of money equal to the cost to the Jewish National Fund of the particular colony adopted.

The Conference is also urged to continue the Land Redemption Scheme by calling on every Jewish family to redeem through the Jewish National Fund a piece of land in Palestine equal in area to their home in this country.

Other resolutions before the Conference express belief that the ultimate success of the Jewish upbuilding in Palestine depends on the creation of a farming class for whom land acquisition is vital, and therefore welcome the declared intention of the Seventeenth Zionist Congress to oppose every law impeding the acquisition of land by the Jewish people as contrary to the terms of the Mandate, and endorse the policy of the Jewish National Fund to acquire land in all parts of Palestine where there is the possibility of settlement in the near future, pledging support to the demand of the Seventeenth Zionist Congress that an adequate portion of the State lands in Palestine be transferred to the Jewish people for settlement requirements, as laid down in the Mandate.

Rev. S. Frampton made special mention of the Jewish National Fund Conference and the 30th. anniversary of the Jewish National Fund in the course of his sermon at the Pinces Road Synagogue here yesterday morning.

Professor Selig Brodetsky, member of the Executive of the Jewish Agency and the Zionist World Organisation will address the Conference this afternoon, and Mr. Leopold Schen will speak on the work of the Jewish National Fund in Palestine.