A resolution acclaiming the Defense Army of Israel and characterizing it as the only true defender of democracy in its area of the world was adopted here at the national conference of the Hagdud Haivri League, Veterans of the American Palestine Jewish Legion. The Jewish Legion was composed of 11,000 men, 7,000 of them from the U.S. and Canada, many of whom had enlisted in the British Expeditionary Force as early as 1915, before the U.S. entered World War I.
The conference decided to go ahead with projects to settle veterans of retirement age in Israel and to found a military museum memorializing the exploits of the Jews who fought to liberate Palestine in 1917-1918. It appointed Arnold K. Israeli, a member of the organization and a noted author and journalist who is making a trip to Israel, to act as a one-man committee to investigate possible sites for the projected settlement and to report back at the next regular conference of the organization which will be held in the fall.
The conference also resolved to approach the Israel Government about a plan for the transferal of the remains of Zev Jabotinsky from the United States to Israel. Speakers heard by the group included Yehuda Levit, Economic Consul of Israel in New York; Lt. Col. M. Kol-Nescher, assistant air attache at the Israel Embassy in Washington, Herman Carliner, Arnold Israeli and Solomon Dingol, editor of the Jewish Day-Morning Journal. Elias Gilner was re-elected national commander of the League.
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