Zionist Conference Decides to Enforce Primacy for U.j.a.; Votes to Form Special Body

More than 3,000 delegates representing all Zionist groups in New York today adopted a resolution urging the immediate formation of a special United Jewish Appeal city-wide council which will seek to achieve over-all co-ordination of timing and activities to assure the success of the U.J.A. campaign. The resolution emphasized that primacy will be given to the U.J.A. functions and needs during the duration of the campaign.

The resolution was adopted at a “Zionist mobilization conference” addressed by Edward M.M. Warburg, general chairman of the U.J.A. who emphasized that a minimum sum of $25,000,000 must be provided to U.J.A. agencies to bring 100,000 Jews to Israel from “danger and deadline areas” in Eastern Europe and Moslem countries within the next four months. Ambassador Abba Eban of Israel, addressing the rally, said that the major effort continues to come from the Israel community itself, but to supplement its own efforts the Government of Israel is now seeking aid from American Jewry as well as from the U.S. Government.

Rudolf G. Sonneborn, national chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, told the audience that the United Jewish Appeal is not a philanthropy, but a democratic movement of voluntary self-taxation created by the desperate needs of hundreds of thousands of Jews throughout the world. He described the U.J.A. as “unique and irreplaceable” and outlined the achievements reached through the aid given by the United Jewish Appeal. The conference was also addressed by Dr. Nahum Goldmann, Louis Lipsky, Baruch Zuckerman and other Zionist Leaders.

A special Hagaddah printed in Israel and symbolizing the exodus of the Jews from bondage in Egypt 3,500 years ago, was presented to Mr. Warburg in behalf of the people of Israel and the Zionists of the United States. The presentation was made by Ambassador Eban. The citation hailed Mr. Warburg for his leadership of the United Jewish Appeal.