German Pro-palestine Committee Sends Greetings to American Pro-palestine Committee

The Presidium of the German Pro-Palestine Committee has through its Chairman, Count Bernstoff, former German Ambassador to the United States, sent a message of greeting to the American Pro-Palestine Committee, which was constituted recently in Washington, largely through the efforts of Mr. Emanuel Neuman, the American member of the Jewish Agency Executive.

The Presidium of the German Pro-Palestine Committee, Count Bernstorff writes, has read with great interest the reports about the impressive inaugural meeting of your Committee. We welcome this manifestation of the sympathy that exists among the great American people for the establishment of the Jewish National Home, of which your Committee is the visible embodiment to the entire world. We are happy to know that your Committee has set itself the task of promoting and facilitating the upbuilding of the Jewish homeland.

When our German Pro-Palestine Committee was constituted in December 1926, high Government officials, leading Parliamentarians, important public men and prominent representatives of science and art joined together, in the conviction that the upbuilding of the Homeland for the Jewish people as provided in the Palestine Mandate is a work that will benefit humanity and advance the cause of civilisation and progress in the Orient and tends to the reconciliation of peoples, and for that reason is entitled to the sympathies of the German people and the active participation of the German Jews.

In the five years since its formation, our Committee has endeavoured through a large number of public meetings and demonstrations and the issue of many publications to obtain an understanding among the German public for the modern idea of a Jewish Palestine, and to secure support for the Jewish work in Palestine. We have welcomed with great satisfaction the similar committees which have been formed in England, France, Italy Austria and other countries, with the participation of some of the most important men in these countries, and we rejoice that we are able now to express our good wishes to your Committee, and we look forward to your very fruitful activity. We are particularly pleased that the Vice-President of the United States has played a great part in the formation of your Committee, and that the head of the United States, President Hoover, has expressed his sympathies with the work of your Committee in a cordial message of greeting. The Presidium of the German Pro-Palestine Committee sends you herewith a copy of its programme, and a list of its members and of the publications which it has issued till now. We hope to be in constant contact with your Committee, and we look forward to being able in conjunction with your Committee and the other Pro-Palestine Committees to help to achieve our common aim.