The Administrative Committee of the Zionist Organization of America, at its first meeting since the election of its membership at the Philadelphia Convention, held at the Hotel Astor on Sunday, resolved to merge the national administrations of the Zionist Organization of America and the American Palestine Campaign in order to prevent duplication of effort.
A Committee of seven to work out the practical steps by which this can be effectuated was appointed.
The merger proposal was made by Morris Rothenberg, president of the Zionist Organization, who presided, and was endorsed by Louis Lipsky, chairman of the American Palestine Campaign, who stated that fund raising efforts can not be successful unless the Zionist Organization itself is strengthened.
The Committee will, in accordance with Sunday’s decision, shortly call a conference at some central point for the purpose of discussing ways and means of promoting Zionist sentiment among the youth and of forming a national Zionist youth movement. The conference will be called under the auspices of a Committee of 60 leading Jewish scholars and educators, whose names were approved by the conference.
The Zionist organization will shortly issue a proclamation appealing for membership in the movement.
Morris Margulies, secretary of the Administrative Committee, delivered a report on organization matters and revealed that membership in the Zionist Organization shows an upward trend and that the opportunities for important increases appear to be good.
Dr. S. Bernstein, head of the immigration bureau, stated that 200 visas placed at the disposal of the bureau in the past three months for “capitalist” immigrants have been allocated and all the holders of these visas have departed for Palestine.
In all this bureau has disposed of 650 “capitalist” visas whose holders have brought a total capital of $700,000 into Palestine.
Mr. Lipsky presented a report on the deliberations of the Actions Committee in London which he attended.
A resolution was introduced by Jacob de Haas calling for a special meeting of the Administrative Committee to be convened to debate the report. Although no action on this resolution was taken, it is expected that an opportunity for debate will be presented at the next meeting of the Actions Committee.
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