JACOBUS H. KANN, PROMINENT BANKER AND VETERAN ZIONIST LEADER, TODAY SUPPORTED MENACHEM M. USSISHKIN IN HIS OPPOSITION AT THE ZIONIST CONGRESS TO THE PARTITION OF PALESTINE AND PROPOSED AN ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM BASED ON CONTINUANCE OF THE HOLY LAND MANDATE.
MR. KANN, FOUNDER OF THE DUTCH ZIONIST ORGANIZATION, WAS ONE OF THE FIRST FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS OF DR. THEODOR HERZL, FOUNDER OF POLITICAL ZIONISM, AND HELPED HIM ESTABLISH THE JEWISH COLONIAL TRUST, ZIONIST FINANCIAL AGENCY. HE IS A FORMER MEMBER OF THE ZIONIST GENERAL COUNCIL.
NEITHER THE BRITISH ROYAL COMMISSION’S REPORT NOR ITS RECOMMENDATIONS ARE ACCEPTABLE TO THE JEWS, MR. KANN SAID IN A STATEMENT TO THE JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY. THE PLAN TO ESTABLISH A JEWISH STATE IS IMPRACTICABLE SINCE, EVEN IF ITS PROPOSED BORDERS ARE EXTENDED, IT WILL REMAIN INCAPABLE OF ABSORBING ALL THE IMMIGRANTS WISHING TO SETTLE IN PALESTINE, HE SAID.
‘HIS PROGRAM FOLLOWS:
1- EXECUTION OF THE PALESTINE MANDATE IN THE SPIRIT IN WHICH IT WAS CONCEIVED.
2- REMOVAL OF UNFIT AND UNWILLING PALESTINE OFFICIALS AND REPLACEMENT BY CAPABLE, EXPERIENCED OFFICIALS WHO ARE IN SYMPATHY WITH THE POLICY OF ESTABLISHING A JEWISH NATIONAL HOME.
3- DEPORTATION OF MISCHIEF-MAKERS FROM PALESTINE.
4- ADOPTION OF THE POLICY OF DR. JUDAH L. MAGNES, PRESIDENT OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY IN JERUSALEM, OF PROMOTING FREE AND UNHAMPERED NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN JEWS AND ARABS.
5- INTERNATIONALIZATION OF JERUSALEM, SINCE IT IS LIKELY TO REMAIN FOR A LONG TIME THE CENTER OF POLITICAL INTRIGUES.
6- PROMOTION OF LARGE-SCALE JEWISH IMMIGRATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SPIRIT OF THE MANDATE.
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