The creation of a provisional Zionist Executive to be composed of persons not now members of the Executive and to include American Zionist leaders and Revisionists, the Zionist opposition, is demanded in a memorandum submitted today to the Zionist Executive in London on behalf of the Polish Zionist Central Committee by Leon Lewite acting for Deputy Isaac Gruenbaum, president of the Polish Zionist Federation, who is ill.
The memorandum suggests that the provisional Executive in cooperation with the Zionist Organization of America should take steps to continue the Zionist work but if such a provisional Executive is not possible then the resigned Executive without Dr. Chaim Weizmann, resigned president of the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization, should continue the work.
Other recommendations contained in the memorandum are that the Executive decline any British declarations, reject compromises, demand that the House of Commons consider the Palestine policy, approach the Mandates Commission immediately, take the necessary steps to obtain the sympathy of the great powers, until the situation has cleared up, settle all Jewish National Fund lands over a period of not more than five years, prepare a plan for land reform in which Jewish capital will participate on condition that part of the lands be transferred for Jewish colonization, thus gaining the friendship of the fellaheen, and conduct the forthcoming Zionist Congress along the lines of the first Congress by considering the Jewish situation all over the world in order to make the Palestine question part of the solution of the entire Jewish question in which almost all nations are interested.
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