Mr. Emanuel Neuman Member of Jewish Agency Executive Leaves America for London

Mr. Emanuel Neuman, member of the Jewish Agency Executive who has been responsible for the negotiations which have led to the formation of the American Pro-Palestine Committee headed by the Vice-President of the United States, Mr. Curtis, and many prominent American politicians and endorsed by President Hoover, sailed to-day for London on board the “Bremen” to take up his duties with the Jewish Agency Executive.

Soon after the new Executive was elected by the Congress, an official communique was issued in Zurich dealing with the way in which the duties of the various members of the Executive would be divided, and this stated that Mr. Neuman had gone to America to wind up his affairs as President of the Jewish National Fund in America, and as a member of the Executive of the Zionist Organisation of America, and would arrive in London at the beginning of October. His departure from America, it was later stated, however, was postponed at the request of the Jewish Agency Executive in London to enable him to complete the important work which he had undertaken there. He was also largely instrumental in bringing about the restoration of peace in the American Zionist Organisation. It was understood that he would leave for London soon after the arrival of Mr. Nahum Sokolov in the United States. The Zurich statement said that in London Mr. Neuman would be engaged for some months in preparatory work in a sphere of activity which is of special interest to him, to attract private capital for the purpose of investment in Palestine. During this period he will also have the special task of maintaining contact and collaboration with America. Pater on Mr. Neuman, the statement concluded, will proceed to Palestine to settle there permanently.

My principal interest in the work of the Executive, Mr. Neuman has stated in an interview with the J.T.A., will be the furtherance of the economic development of Palestine along the lines proposed by the American delegation at the Congress. I refer to the programme ably outlined and forcefully presented by Mr. Brodie, which is the result of long and careful study on the part of our American group. We are deeply convinced that the realisation of our aims in Palestine requires the mobilisation of Jewish resources in a manner and on a scale not hitherto attempted. We propose to establish in Palestine an organisation composed of experts, which will advise and assist Palestinians engaged in industry and commerce, supply reliable information to Jews in the Diaspora regarding conditions and opportunities in Palestine, and, through the medium of Palestine Economic Committees to be established in the various countries in the Diaspora, stimulate the immigration of middle-class settlers and the assembling of the capital necessary to carry out a well-conceived economic programme.