Nazification of Austria provided a new and pressing problem for Zionist leaders attending a session of the Zionist General Council here. Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, told them last night that the meeting was under the shadow of the calamity which had befallen Austria’s Jews, and emphasized that he took a serious view of the international Jewish situation.
Dr. Weizmann declared he had informed the British Government he would not even communicate to the World Zionist Congress any partition plan representing a reduction of the Peel Royal commission’s plan.
Replying to a speech of Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Dr. Weizmann gave assurances that he was not concealing the essential facts of negotiations with Britain. He stressed the important mission of American Jewry at the present time and suggested establishment of a political center in America headed by Dr. Wise and Louis Lipsky.
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