The Small Zionist Actions Committee today adopted a resolution approving the ”Biltmore Declaration,” issued by American Zionists last May, demanding the establishment of a Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine. The resolution was adopted by a roll-call vote of 21 to 4. Three members of the Hashomer Hatzair and one member of the Ichud Party voted against it. Three other members of the Actions Committee abstained from voting.
A resolution submitted by the Hashomer Hatzair, advocating among other things the establishment of a bi-national state in Palestine after the war, received only three votes. David Ben-Gurion, chairman of the exccutive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, announced at today’s session that the Jewish Agency will soon submit to the Actions Committee resolutions dealing with the question of relations with the Arahs as well as with the post-war international status of Palestine. A special session of the Small Zionist Actions Committee, he said, will soon be ocuvoked for the purpose of formulating the Zionist demands with regard to Jewish rights after the war in countries outside of Palestine.
The Hashomer Hatzair resolution, while advocating the establishment of Palestine as an Arab-Jewish state after the war, also demanded that the administration of Palestine after the war should be supervised by an international body, with the Jewish Agency controlling Jewish immigration ”in accordance with the country’s full absorptive capacity and in a manner commensurable with the distress of the Jews in the countries outside of Palestine.”
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