Palestine Campaign Leaders Vote to Continue Drive

By a unanimous decision of leaders in the Palestine movement in America, it was voted at an emergency meeting held last night of members of the Greater New York American Palestine Campaign Committee to continue “Without hesitation, without loss of enthusiasm and without cessation of effort” with the American Palestine Campaign.

The emergency meeting was in response to a cablegram that had been received from the Executive of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, which indicated that a financial collapse is imminent for the Jewish Agency in Palestine, and warning that Jewish relations with the Government and economic stability of Jews in Palestine would be disastrously affected.

It was resolved to communicate the decision to continue the Palestine Campaign “to all similar American Palestine Campaign committees throughout America, urging them to go on with their work with that speed and that determination which America justifies and which Palestine demands.”

The keynote of the meeting was set by Mr. Jacob H. Cohen, President of the Forest Box and Lumber Company, who is Treasurer of the American Palestine Campaign nationally, who expressed the view that “the business men of this country have never felt as genuinely hopeful as they do today. We have reached rock-bottom and from now on, we can be confident of upward progress. It would be a terrific blow to Jewish morale in America to discontinue our efforts for Palestine, a project which is so bound up with ideals of permanency and unyielding effort.”

DR. WISE SPEAKS

A declaration that the Zionist movement was never as strong as today was made by Dr. Stephen S. Wise, who said:

“There is no place in the Zionist movement for those who suffer themselves to grow faint-hearted. In Germany, we have the most abundant and tragic justification of the position taken by Zionists. Some of our German coreligionists thought if they eschewed every phase of Jewish nationalism, that there would never be any question of the integrity of their citizenship. We now see how illusioned they were. These last three days in Berlin ought to mean a tremendous reinforcement of Zionism.”