The agreement between Germany and Palestine for import of German goods amounting to three million marks in liquidation of property of German-Jewish emigrants will be abandoned, according to Louis Lipsky, national chairman of the American Palestine Campaign, who has just returned from the World Zionist Congress at Prague.
Mr. Lipsky, who was elected at the Prague parley as the only American member of the World Zionist Executive, discussing the results of the conference, roundly scored the Revisionist party, which he said had received “an effective set-back”
“A party which makes disloyalty and violation of discipline a political principle, which educates its youth to imitation of Hitler organization methods, with symbols and practises of violence and pseudo-militarism, which permits the advocacy of terroristic methods by its leaders without reproof or check, cannot expect to find place or countenance within a movement like Zionism, which is based upon constitutional and legal methods,” said Mr. Lipsky.
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise was assailed for allegedly abetting the Revisionists, and seeking “in the usual abusive manner” to throw the blame for the Congress disorders upon the Labor party and the Liberal Center. Mr. Lipsky said that Dr. Wise was less interested in “terror and suspicion of murder than in the opportunity to give vent to his wrath against the Labor party for its solidarity in making Dr. Weizmann’s return to Zionist leadership possible.”
Morris Rothenberg, president of the Zionist Organization of America, who returned with Mr. Lipsky, speaking of Palestine as a refuge for persecuted Jews, said in part:
“The American delegation at the Zionist Congress was gratified that their proposal to bring the entire matter of the acute problem of Jewish homelessness to the consideration of the League of Nations was unanimously adopted by the Congress. The newly-elected Executive of the Jewish Agency was instructed to take immediate steps looking to that end. For it must be obvious that only through the generous assistance of the Mandatory Power and sympathetic international cooperation can a problem of such huge proportions be dealt with adequately.”
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