An American Commission for the Economic Development of Palestine to coordinate the activities of all public and private agencies in this county engaged in rebuilding the Jewish Homeland, was voted today at the final session of the National Conference for Palestine, at the Mayflower Hotel here.
The conference, which opened yesterday, brought together 1,500 Jewish leaders from all parts of the United States, representing a constituency of 1,300,000 persons. It comprised the most representative assembly in the history of American Jewry.
The conference urged the Jewish Agency for Palestine to create a world-wide planning commission, with which the American group would cooperate. The planning commission resolution was introduced by Alfred M. Cohen of Cincinnati, international president of B’nai B’rith.
FURTHER IMMIGRATION SOUGHT
Another resolution called upon Great Britain as the mandatory power for Palestine to permit a larger Jewish immigration into the Holy Land, to make room for the thousands of Jews who are being persecuted in various lands or who are not permitted to fit into the economic structures of the countries in which they live.
The assembly decided that since its deliberations had been “so helpful and successful,” it should be reconvened this year, at a time and place to be decided by a committee of twenty-five heads of various national sponsoring organizations.
$50,000,000 ALREADY SPENT
More than $50,000,000 was spent for various reconstruction purposes in Palestine by the Palestine Foundation Fund, it was reported by Leo Herrmann of Jerusalem, international fund secretary.
American Jews contributed ap-
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