The Weizmann-Marshall agreement on the Jewish Agency will have an immediate effect upon the United Palestine Appeal this year, Judge William M. Lewis, national chairman of the Appeal, returning from a campaign tour, declared in a letter to Dr. Chaim Weizmann and Louis Marshall.
In his letter to Mr. Marshall, made public by the United Palestine Appeal headquarters, Judge Lewis states that the Jewish communities throughout the country which he has visited in the interests of the United Palestine Appeal are showing profound satisfaction over the agreement.
“The recent publication of this accord, auguring as it does the establishment of harmony and cooperation in American Israel on behalf of Palestine, has brought added strength and zeal to the men and women who, through the United Palestine Appeal, and the funds that are associated in it, have borne the major part of the labor and responsibility involved in the rebuilding of the Jewish National Home,” Judge Lewis wrote to Mr. Marshall.
“These men and women are now happy to extend to you and your associates and the followers the hand of fellowship in the great task that is common to all Israel. They feel confident that as a result of this fellowship the task will be achieved speedily and completely,”
Writing to Dr. Weizmann, Judge Lewis expresses the hope that the unity attained will “for all time put an end to whatever discord may have existed in American Israel.” He declares that the peace pact “has been welcomed with profound joy by the men and women who, through their labors on behalf of the United Palestine Appeal, have borne the lion’s share of the burden in rebuilding the Jewish National Home in Palestine.”
The many thousands of workers and contributors of the United Palestine Appeal cannot but view with expectancy the prospect of the extension of the activities in Palestine as a result of the work of the non-partisan commission and that of the Jewish Agency which is to follow, Judge Lewis declared.
“I have said that the scores of thousands of men and women, in whose name I speak, have borne the lion’s share in the burden of upbuilding the Jewish National Home. If now they are rejoiced over the success of your efforts to enlist new forces for the upbuilding of Palestine, it is not because they desire or expect that any part of the burden they have carried should be lifted from their shoulders. They will deem it a privilege, under your leadership, and that of the men who have built up the Zionist Organization both in this country and abroad into the great constructive instrument which it is today, to continue to stand in the vanguard of the builders of Zion. Their deep satisfaction arises solely from the fact that in the consummation of the Jewish Agency they recognize the bright promise for the speedier rebuilding of the Jewish National Home in Palestine.”
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