A resolution expressing “deep satisfaction in the accomplishments of Israel’s representatives at the recent sessions of the United Nations in Paris, in which they overcame all attempts further to truncate Israel,” was adopted here today at an all-day session of the national Administrative Council of the Zionist Organization of America, held at the Hotel New Yorker.
Other resolutions adopted at the parley commended the stand “taken by President Truman in repelling the attacks against the state of Israel during the current session of the U.N.” and urged the President to continue to “use his power for the fulfillment of the pronounced purpose of making Israel a member of the U.N.”
The Council unanimously went on record approving the settlement in the United Palestine Appeal which “thus assures united fund-raising in America for needs in Israel.” The U.P.A. resolution paid special tribute to Dr. Emanuel Neumann, Z.O.A. president, and Herman L. Weisman, acting U.P.A. chairman, for their negotiations on behalf of the U.P.A.
Asserting that the “whole world and the whole of Jewry have played their parts” in the creation of Israel, Dr. Neumann declared that “it may be doubted that without the active efforts of the 5,000,000 American Jews, the American Government would have adopted the line it did, however imperfect we might at times have thought it.
“More likely, Washington would have followed London in that partnership stand she has taken with England on so many world matters since the end of the war,” the Z.O.A. president said. “The financial aid which American Jewry provided for the embattled and laboring Yishuv was of course of great significance, but I question whether it was of greater importance than the political bulwark it offered.”
A report on membership presented by Joseph Goldberg, membership chairman, revealed that the present enrollment in the Z.O.A. stands at 280,000 — 30 percent more than last year.
In a trans-Atlantic telephone massage from Paris, Israeli representative to the U.N. Aubrey S. Eban told the meeting that “there are unmistakable signs that the Arab states and their supporters in the United Kingdom and elsewhere have begun to despair of exterminating the state of Israel and now harbor less confidence than before of being able to mutilate it.” Morris Weinberg, publisher of The Day, was honored at a luncheon tendered him by the Council on the occasion of his 70th birthday and “in recognition of his valuable services to the Zionist movement and his contributions to Jewish life in America.”
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