(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
A committee of five to meet a similar committee from the United Palestine Appeal for the purpose of arranging for a joint drive with the United Jewish Campaign, was appointed at the Washington conference of the United Jewish Campaign. The quota of the United Jewish Campaign for the District of Columbia is $100,000.
David A. Brown, national chairman of the United Jewish Campaign, and Isaac Don Levine, well-known American Jewish journalist who recently returned from Russia, spoke at a luncheon opening the drive.
Mr. Levine praised the Crimean colonization, describing the land as a belt of 7,000,000 acres of richest soil lying idle. “Herzl and Baron de Hirsch longed for such ideal conditions,” he said. Mr. Levine declared that he sees in the Crimean colonization not only an agricultural opportunity for the Jews who will settle there, but a movement to the Black Sea which will put the Jews on the largest trade routes of the future. He cited the establishment of a dictatorship in Italy and Persia as evidence of the returning of order and system in the southern area which will result in increased development and commercial activity.
“The fact that Russian Jews went south impresses me with the mystic way in which a great force guided them through such tortuous channels into a strategic territorial position.” he declared.
Mr. Levine admitted the persecution by the Soviet Government of Zionism, the Jewish religion and Hebrew culture, but stated that there is nevertheless a great opportunity for at least half a million Jewish colonists to develop their own culture.
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