Sees Zionist Future Based on Role of U.S. Non-zionists

The future of the Zionist movement is greatly dependent on the role to be played by the American Non-Zionists in the colonizing efforts in Palestine, writes the Near East and India. Commenting on Dr. Chaim Weizmann’s statement at the recent meeting of the Zionist Actions Committee in Berlin that Palestine must become a bi-national state, and on the opposition that this statement aroused, the paper says, “There still exists a considerable section of Zionists that overlooks the Churchill White Paper of 1922 and that believes that the best way of furthering Jewish interests in Palestine is by placing right in the forefront of the Zionist program the desire to form a Jewish state.

“Dr. Weizmann, who knows the idealistic side of the Zionist movement as well as any man living, naturally pointed out that he is concerned with the program of the immediate future and not with obscure and distant prospects.” Terming the Actions Committee’s refusal to accept Dr. Weizmann’s resignation common sense, Near East and India notes that the “future of the Zionist movement is most uncertain. It is not yet known how great a part the Non-Zionists, chiefly Americans, will play in the colonization of Palestine, but is perfectly evident that many difficulties are in store unless the Jewish colonization movement strives unceasingly concentratedly to put itself on an economic basis.” Commenting on the meaning of the term “Jewish state,” the paper says “Jewish state is but an untimely phrase and it is not even a geographical expression.”