New Zionist Organization Conference Warns Against Compromise on Palestine

A resolution warning against “possible consent and collaboration by some submissive elements in Zionism and Jewry to measures of compromise” regarding the future of Palestine, was adopted here today at the concluding session of the three-day meeting of the National Council of the New Zionist Organization of America. The resolution urged the mobilization of public opinion in support of the demand that Britain relinquish the “international trust which she failed to discharge” in connection with the Palestine mandate.

Declaring that “the Jewish people are willing to live with the Arabs in peace and amity and to guarantee them full equality and most far-reaching safeguards of their rights and interests,” the Council at the same time endorsed the transfer plan recommended by the British Labor Party and stated that “should a section of Palestine’s Arab population manifest unwillingness to live in a Jewish State as loyal citizens, full opportunity will be given them to emigrate and resettle under proper conditions in an Arab State with full compensation for their property.”

A statement issued by the Council emphasized that the New Zionist Organization is neither organizationally, nor politically, nor ideologically connected with the recently-formed “Hebrew Committee of National Liberation,” and is not responsible in any way for the activities of the organizations connected with this Committee. The statement was opposed by a small group of Zionist-Revisionists who charged that the council of the New Zionist Organization “is not a democratically elected body.” The leaders of the organization, including Col. Morris J. Mendelsohn, president of the N.Z.O. in America, M. M. Sperber, president of the N.Z.O. in Canada, Dr. Joseph Shechtmann, chairman of the presidium of the Council, B. Netanyahu, executive director of the N.Z.O., and Aaron Propes, head of the Brith Trumpeldor group, supported the statement.