The conflict in the United Palestine Appeal was criticized yesterday in editorials appearing in the New York Yiddish press. The Jewish Morning Journal pointed out that the plan to establish a fund-raising organization for Israel distinct from the U.P.A. will result “not only in a split, but in virtual confusion.” This, the Journal continued, “will not do fund-raising efforts for Israel any good.”
The Day said that “at this time, when the Jews of Israel are in the midst of a serious struggle, which is costing hundreds of Jewish lives and millions of Jewish funds, there is a group of people here who seek to undermine the basis of the Zionist Organization in America and to break Jewish unity.”
The Day said it “has in mind the so-called Montor group, which has undertaken to damage the United Jewish Appeal and to harm the collection of funds for Israel. The Day has already published several reports about the Montor scandal,” the editorial continued. “Not all has been told, for we did not wish to make all the intrigues known widely. Some of the U.J.A. leaders felt that this might harm the collection of funds. But for Mr. Montor and the several other people with him there is no such sense of responsibility. For such people there is no place in Jewish public life,” the newspaper added.
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