The present American Jewish leadership will “go down in history as the great betrayer of the Jewish people” unless it initiates an unprecedented action for their persecuted brethren and to consolidate the Jewish position in Palestine, Rabbi Solomon Goldman, president of the Zionist Organization of America, tonight told about 1,000 Zionists at a dinner in his honor at the Hotel Commodore. Dr. Goldman returned Tuesday from a tour of Europe and Palestine. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, his predecessor as Z.O.A. president, presided at the dinner.
“Unless an unprecedentedly broad action is initiated by the American Jewish leadership, a Supreme effort to salvage the bulk of our persecuted brethren and to consolidate the Jewish position in Palestine, the present American Jewish leadership will go down in history as the great betrayer of the Jewish people,” He asserted. “And let none of our great philanthropists labor under the delusion that making the sacrifice asked from them would be pure altruism. By fighting for the Jewish people they are fighting for themselves as well as for the whole of democracy.”
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