Leaders Back Capital Parley on Palestine

A national sponsorship committee, consisting of representative leaders of the Jewish community throughout the nited States, is being formed to support the purposes of the National Conference on Palestine, it was announced yesterday by the Zionist Organization of America.

The parley will be held at Washington, D. C., in January.

The agenda has grown so bulky that it has been decided to hold a two-day session instead of a one-day meeting, as originally planned. The dates are January 20 and 21.

“The National Conference on Palestine, representing a mobilization of all Jewish forces interested in the acceleration of the rebuilding of Palestine so that it may more adequately meet the problem of Jewish homelessness, is winning the support of every element in American Jewry,” asserted Louis Lipsky, chairman of the planning committee for the parley.

POINTS TO PALESTINE

In a statement issued by the committee, it was pointed out that the Washington gathering will “register the will and intention of American Jewry toward the acceleration of the economic development of Palestine.”

“The rapid disintegration of the Jewish position in many lands,” the statement declared, “particularly in Germany and Eastern Europe, and the unparalleled development of Palestine as a permanent haven of refuge for the victimes of oppression, offering an opportunity for a free creative life, make it imperative that the full strength of the Jewish people be mobilized to enlarge the scope and possibilities of Jewish settlement in Palestine, if large segments of our people are not to perish.

“The most competent and impartial students of the world Jewish scene have emphasized with increasing frequency that all conditions point to Palestine as the greatest center for the salvaging of Jewish life. But if the capacity of Palestine to meet the situation is to be fully utilized, there will be required the unprecedented and whole-hearted support of Jews everywhere.

EARNEST SUPPORT OFFER

“An impressive demonstration of concentrated purpose, serving as a token of the will to concrete action, will signify to the Mandatory Power, to the League of Nations, and to the Jewish people the earnestness with which we offer our national and moral support for the enlargement of Palestine’s absorptive capacity and thus help to bring about a wider opening of the doors of Palestine to Jewish immigration.

“To indicate the representative character of this project and to help prepare for the conference itself, there is being formed a National Sponsorship Committee for the Conference on Palestine. The conference is being summoned on a platform able to hold all Jews, united solely by their interest in the rebuilding of Palestine as a center of Jewish life.”

Among those who have accepted membership on the National Sponsorship Committee are the following:

Maurice Bernon, Cleveland; Jacob Epstein, Baltimore; Louis C. Henin, Springfield Mass.; A. S. Kanengieser, Joseph Kraemer, Newark, N. J.; Martin O. Levy, Judge Wm. M. Lewis, Phila.; Dr. and Mrs. S. S. Wise, N. Y.; Judge F. S. Wyner, Elihu D. Stone, Boston, Mass.; Adolph Stern, N. Y. C.; I. Solomon Solis-Cohn, Phila.; S. E. Sobeloff, Baltimore; Simon Shetzer, Detroit, Mich.; Hyman D. Sacharoff, Schenectady, N. Y.; Sam Kasle, Toledo; Dr. D. de Sola Pool, N. Y. C.; Judge Joseph B. Perskie, Atlantic City; Morris Newfield, Birmingham, Ala.; Louis J. Moss, Edwin H. Meissner, St. Louis; Jacob Fishman, Dr. S. Margoshes, Hirsch Manischewitz, Louis S. Lieberman, N. Y. C.; Julius Livingston, Tulsa, Okla.; Louis S. Lieberman, Albany, N. Y.; Morris S. Lazaron, Baltimore; S. C. Lamport, N. Y. C.; Rabbi S. Joshua Kohn, Utica, N. Y.; Dr. Horace M. Kallen, N. Y. C.; Edward M. Kahn, Atlanta, Ga.; Alexander Kahn, Rabbi L. Jung, N. Y. C.; Dr. Leo L. Honor, Chicago, Ill.; L. Manuel Hendler, Baltimore, Md.; Rabbi Simon Greenberg, Phila.; Dr. Israel Goldstein, N. Y. C.; Eli Frank, Baltimore; Rabbi Leo Fram, Detroit, Mich.; Bernard S. Deutsch, N. Y. C.; Amos S. Deinard, Minneapolis; Edward M. Chase, Manchester, N. H.; Alexander Brin, Boston; Jacob Billikopf, Phila.; Rabbi Jesse Bienenfeld, Syracuse; Oscar Berman, Cincinnati; Solomon N. Bazell, Louisville, Ky.; Rabbi B. G. Axelman, Charleston, S. C.; Rabbi B. A. Lichter, Pittsburgh; Isidor Herschfield, Washington; Dr. Harry Friedenwald, Baltimore; Rabbi Nathan Krass, N. Y. C.; Moses Shapiro, Winston-Salem, N. C.; Dewey D. Stone, Tauton, Mass.; Rabbi Max Raisin, Paterson, N. J.; George I. Fox, Mrs. A. Swire, Albany; Jacob deHaas, N. Y. C.; M. Lyon Stadiem, Kingston, N. C.; Dr. Eli A. Miller, Denver, Colo.; and Harold Riegelman, N. Y. C.