More than 500 leading members of the Zionist Organization of America in the metropolitan area met today at an emergency meeting called by Dr. Emanuel Neumann, Z.O.A. president, to consider the “grave political situation confronting Israel.”
Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, one of the principal speakers at the meeting, warned against a sense of complacency, adding: “The whole situation is as dangerously fluid as it might be.” “Our government, which has shown in recent months friendly attitude toward our cause,” Dr. Silver asserted, “has as yet not given full recognition to Israel, nor given loans to Israel and has not brought about the admission of Israel into the united Nations.”
Declaring that “it is time the world takes inventory of the action of warmongers,” Dr. Neumann urged the U.N. to “curb the warlike and intransigent behavior of Bevin and his ilk.” The Z.0.A. president emphasized that “there was a need for peace and unity not only in Israel, but in America,” adding that the “U.P.A. and U.J.A. must look toward the larger interests of Israel and the Jewish people. We shall go forward to victory and shall oppose any dissident movement attempting to undermine the integrity and strength of organized Zionism in America,” he added.
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