Zionist Activity in Palestine to Go On, Weizmann Tells Doctors

Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared today that despite recent disorders Zionist activity in Palestine would go on. He addressed 300 doctors attending the opening session of the First World Congress of Jewish Physicians here.

Appearing tired and worn from activity in the last few days, he asserted in discussing the Arabs and the Jews that “on one side there is terror, on the other side culture, and this is the old struggle between terror and culture.”

He continued:

“You are assembled here in days of peril and of national grief for the whole House of Israel. It would be distinguishing our fight that this assembly symbolize the Jewish answer to all the suffering which comes from destructive forces.

“Although it is quite difficult to speak before the open graves, to console in such times, still I am sure that there is no man in this hall, no man in the whole civilized world who is not sympathetic with us, who does not believe that these events, too, will pass, as has all suffering in time past.

“They share the deep grief of our people, the deep grief of those families which suffered losses during recent days. You all shall continue constructive work, and all the other men — the farmers, the industrialists and the chalutzim (pioneers) — will continue their work. I pray the work may prove successful.”

The congress, which was called to fight discrimination against Jewish physicians throughout the world and review Jewish health and hygiene, will move its sessions to Jerusalem, where it will be the guest of the Jewish Agency, the Jewish National Fund, the Palestine Foundation Fund and the Hebrew University.

Dr. Henry Keller, of New York, who spends several months a year in Jerusalem directing a clinic for crippled children, is representing American Jewish physicians at the congress.