Mr. Emannuel Neuman Arrives in London: Brings with Him Letter from Senator King Assuring American Pa

Mr. Emanuel Neuman, American member of the Jewish Agency Executive, who arrived here to-day from Paris to take up his duties on the Executive, told the J.T.A. that just as he had left New York on his way to London he had received a message from Senator William H. King of Utah, who presided at the dinner in Washington on January 17th., where the American Palestine Committee was formed, assuring him that the Committee would do all in its power to aid the rehabilitation of Palestine as the Jewish national homeland.

Both the people and the Government of the United States have given repeated indications of their sympathetic interests in the Zionist cause, Senator King wrote. This interest is rooted in the tradition and history of our own country, n its dedication to the cause of freedom, its concern for the smaller nationalities and its consciousness of the great debt which Christian civilisation owes to Israel.

It was no accident that President Wilson was powerfully instrumental in helping to secure international recognition of Jewish aspirations in Palestine and that each of his successors in office, including President Hoover, has given public expression to his Zionist sympathies. The historic resolution adopted by the unanimous vote of both houses of Congress in 1922 and signed by President Harding was no mere gesture, but a carefully considered action by which the United States of America gave its formal and public approval to the reconstitution of the Jewish National Home. Moreover the Balfour Declaration and indeed the whole of the Mandate for Palestine were textually incorporated in a special Convention on Palestine, negotiated between the United States and Great Britain in 1925.

I, therefore, feel that I am speaking, not only for my distinguished associates who have participated in the formation of the American Palestine Committee, but for large numbers of our fellow citizens everywhere when I say that there are few causes which command such universal sympathy and approval in this country as the Zionist movement.

It was not surprising that following the authoritative presentation made by Professor Frankfurter and your own eloquent appeal such an immediate and gratifying response was forthcoming on the part of the leading American statesmen.

The American Palestine Committee will endeavour to disseminate correct information about the progress of the Jewish National Home and the Palestine situation generally; and

will, I hope, lend powerful moral support to your cause. It is intended that the Committee will soon formulate its further plans.

You may sail with the complete assurance that the Committee, which you helped to bring into being, will do all in its power to further the noble efforts of the Jewish people for the rehabilitation of the Holy Land and the rescoration of their National life.