A reaffirmation of their whole-hearted faith in the soundness of the principle which calls for the acquisition of land in Palestine as the inalienable property of the Jewish people under the aegis of the Jewish National Fund was given by upwards of 500 delegates attending the National Conference of the Jewish National Fund which ended here last night. After listening to stirring addresses by Emanuel Neumann, president of the Jewish National Fund, Louis Lipsky, president of the Zionist Organization of America and Major Daniel Hopkin, Labor member of the British House of Commons, the enthusiastic delegates pledged their support during the coming year with a view to raising at least $500,000 for the Jewish National Fund.
With virtually every part of the country represented, the conference for conviction and loyalty will go down as one of the most animated gatherings ever held. All the speakers were unanimous in emphasizing the increased importance which the Jewish National Fund has taken on in recent months.
Major Hopkin stirred the delegates by the assurance that the British government, regardless of political complexion, will stand firmly on the Mandate. He urged American Jews to set the standard for the Jews of the whole world for the purchase of land in Palestine. Major Hopkin exhorted them not to be side-tracked by propaganda of one kind or another from the main issue of setting up the Jewish National Home by the acquisition of land. He assured them that the Zionist cause was not without influential friends in the House of Commons and he declared that had “a man been in Palestine instead of Luke there would have been no riots.”
The Conference was opened by Rabbi Max D. Klein of Philadelphia, who turned the chair over to Emanuel Neumann, president of the Jewish National Fund, who in his presidential address declared emphatically that the Jews had been derelict in their duty, that they had not acquired enough land in Palestine. “Twenty percent of the population in Palestine is Jewish but only 6 percent of the land is in Jewish possession. This includes both privately owned land and that in the possession of the Jewish National Fund,” he stated.
A report from the treasurer of the Jewish National Fund, Solomon Lam-
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