Palcor’s False Story Brings Demand Be Dropped from Budget

AN INACCURATE REPORT BY THE PALCOR NEWS AGENCY THAT THE WORLD ZIONIST CONGRESS HAD ADOPTED A RESOLUTION FAVORING ACCEPTANCE OF PALESTINE PARTITION THREATENED TODAY TO CUT FROM THE GENERAL BUDGET AN ALLOTMENT OF 3,200 POUNDS (ABOUT $16,000) FOR THE ZIONIST PUBLICITY BUDGET.

AN AMENDMENT TO THE BUDGET, WHICH AUTHORIZED EXPENDITURE BY THE WORLD ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF ABOUT $1,825,000 FOR THE ENSUING YEAR, DEMANDING ELIMINATION OF THE PALCOR ALLOTMENT WAS SUBMITTED TO THE ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE BY ENGINEER J. THON OF PALESTINE.

SIXTY DELEGATES FROM TWELVE COUNTRIES, INCLUDING NINE FROM THE UNITED STATES, WHO VOTED FOR THE CONGRESS RESOLUTION EMPOWERING THE EXECUTIVE TO NEGOTIATE WITH GREAT BRITAIN ON PROPOSED ESTABLISHMENT OF A JEWISH STATE, SIGNED A PROTEST AGAINST THE INACCURATE REPORT. THE PROTEST, WHICH ALSO ACCUSES THE KONGRESS ZEITUNG (OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ZIONIST CONGRESS) OF THE SAME INACCURACY, WAS SUBMITTED TO THE CONGRESS PRESIDIUM AND READ FROM THE TRIBUNE LAST NIGHT BY ISRAEL MEREMINSKY, PALESTINE LABOR LEADER.

AMONG THE SIGNERS OF THE STRONGLY-WORDED PROTEST WERE A NUMBER OF PALESTINE LABOR LEADERS, INCLUDING BERL KATZNELSON, EDITOR OF DAVAR, PALESTINE LABORITE DAILY; I. NEUSTADT, GENERAL SECRETARY OF HISTADRUTH (PALESTINE JEWISH LABOR FEDERATION); MRS. GOLDIE MYERSON, MR. MEREMINSKY AND OTHER PROMINENT PALESTINE FIGURES.

THE PROTEST THEY SIGNED READS:

“WE EXPRESS OUR EMBITTERMENT AND SURPRISE AGAINST THE EDITORS OF THE KONGRESS ZEITUNG AND PALCOR FOR THEIR INACCURACY IN REPORTING THE MAJORITY RESOLUTION OF THE CONGRESS IN A SENSE INTERPRETED TO MEAN THAT THE CONGRESS ALLEGEDLY DECIDED IN FAVOR OF PARTITION WHEN IN FACT THE RESOLUTION TOOK NO ATTITUDE ON PARTITION AND POSTPONED THE WHOLE MATTER FOR A DECISION AT THE NEXT CONGRESS. IN A MATTER WHICH IS OF THE GREATEST IMPORTANCE TO THE FATE OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT, THE GREATEST ACCURACY MUST BE EXERCISED AND INCORRECT INTERPRETATIONS AVOIDED.”