The Reader’s Forum

The editors reserve the night to excerpt all letters exceeding 250 words in length. All letters must bear the name and address of the writer although not necessarily for publication.

To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:

I was present at the meeting of the Polish relief conference in the Hotel Pennsylvania when Dr. Stephen Wise made his unusual and uncalled-for attack on Mr. Neville Laski, British Jewish leader.

I doubt the wisdom of the attack and feel that the welfare of the Polish Jews, who are in desperate need, is being lost sight of in the unseemly bickering between Jewish leaders. Instead of achieving a united front even on such vital matters as the very existence of Polish Jewry, we seem to be drifting further apart.

Not in that fashion will Polish Jewry be saved.

Jacob H. Brickman.

Brooklyn, N. Y.

Jan. 6, 1935.

NON-ZIONISTS ON AGENCY

To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:

The decision of the Administrative Committee of the Jewish Agency to provide more adequate representation on the Zionist Executive for non-Zionists is wholly to be commended. The more rabid of the professional Zionists certainly need to be curtailed and if non-Zionists, through the medium of the Jewish Agency, are to continue to assume a responsibility for the acts of the Zionist Executive, they should have an equal say in the formulation of its program.

Just as there should be no taxation without representation, there should be no assumption of responsibility without adequate representation in the Palestine councils. The time has come for non-Zionists to forgo their traditional background position. But Zionism needs less politics; more intelligent leadership. Perhaps the non-Zionists have this to offer.

Robert Josephs.

Bronx, N. Y.

Jan. 5, 1935.