Present economic conditions in Palestine are such as to assure the rapid absorption by it of at least a million Jews in the early future, Rabbi James Heller, national chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, declared today following his return this week from a visit to Palestine.
Rabbi Heller declared that the solution of the problem of Jewish survivors in Europe is through mass settlement in Palestine. He urged the Jews of the United States to assume a greater part in the development of Palestine.
Dr. Heller visited fifty of Palestine’s agricultural settlements and every major city and town in the country. He was deeply impressed by the “miraculous transformation of the country, whose grandeur of achievement is all the more recognizable as Jewish accomplishments are contrasted with sections of the country which have been neglected for centuries.” He also attended the World Zionist Conference in London as an American delegate.
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