Declaring that the creation of a strong, unified Zionist movement in the United States was one of the imperatives of the reorganization of the World Zionist movement that will be considered at the 27th World Zionist Congress this June, Louis A. Pincus, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, said that the American Zionist Council must be strengthened as a functioning agency so that it can more effectively conduct a program for aliyah and education in the United States.
Mr. Pincus spoke before several hundred delegates representing 13 national Zionist groups from all over the country at an annual leadership conference of the American Zionist Council. He emphasized the urgency of developing a coordinated program for American aliyah that will translate the existing deep sympathy for Israel into the reality of the manpower that it so sorely needs.
“The need for an effective, operational unified Zionist organization in the United States,” Mr. Pincus said, “transcends the individual organizational programs and aspirations of the various groupings within the Zionist movement. Unless this is accomplished,” he warned, “American Zionists will not meet their responsibilities.”
Rabbi Miller told the delegates that if Zionism was to be “a source of strength” in the American community, the American Zionist Council “must be transformed” into an integrated agency. He added that the Zionist movement could not afford “the luxury of being a speech-making or speech-listening body, or even an agency which acts only through its constituent groups.”
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