Zionist Leaders Warn Against “hasty Conclusions” on Palestine Issue

A plea to the Jewish public against forming hasty conclusions concerning the Yalta conference in relation in relation to the Palestine issue was made by Zionist leaders at a meeting of the National Executive of the Zionist Organization of America on Tuesday night in New York, it was announced here today. Jewish public opinion was counseled to withold judgment on the actions of Roosevelt and Churchill until definite word will have been ascertained regarding decisions reached on Jewish problems and Palestine.

In a keynote address Dr. Israel Goldstein, ZCA President, declared that “the prepared and ad libb remarks by Roosevelt and Churchill have evoked feeling of let down among Jewish people since we had a right to expect hopeful message in the face of the Jewish tragedy and the justice of our demands. At the same time he added we are not warranted to interpret their words in a manner tending to plunge the Jewish public into deep pessimism and despair.

Speaking in similar vein, Herman Shulman of the Ziomist Emergency council reported on the plans mapped to launch a nationwide effort to secure representation for the Jewish people at San Francisco. He indicated that it is the present understanding that no attempt will be made at San Francisco to dispose of territorial questions but that only the structure of the postwar world order will be considered including the mandates system of category “B”. Palestine as mandate “A” may be excluded. Other speakers indluded Dr. Nahum Goldman, Meyer W. Weisgal, Judge Bernard Rosenblatt, Daniel, Frisch, Mendal Fischer and others. Saul S. Spire, ZCA Secretary, reported that membership since October 1 exceeded 80,000, an increase of over 20,000 for the same period last year.