The American Mizrachi Organization will cooperate with the newly organized American Jewish Assembly only on condition that “no compromise be permitted on the Jewish Commonwealth idea or on the rights of Jews outside Palestine,” the three-day annual Mizrachi convention decided today at its closing session.
The convention also adopted a resolution calling upon the American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs to conduct a referendum among the Jews in the United States on the Zionist request that the United Nations proclaim post-war Palestine a Jewish Commonwealth.
The convention concluded with a farewell banquet tendered to Rabbi Meyer Berlin, world president of the Mizrachi organization, who is returning to Palestine shortly. The banquet was arranged by the orthodox branch of the Jewish National Fund, of which Rabbi Berlin is a director. It was announced at the banquet that the American Mizrachi organization will undertake to develop 6,000 dumans of land near Jerusalem.
Other resolutions adopted by the Mizrachi convention pledged full cooperation in the war effort of the United States and the United Nations and appealed to the Allied Nations to permit the sending of food to starving Jews in Europe and to take all possible action to save these Jews from Nazi extermination. Leon Gellman was re-elected president of the organization.
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