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status or, least of all, for that
dignity of the individual which
lies at the basis of our civiliza-
tion," said Attorney General
Murphy.
Declaring; that America itself
came into being at the hands of
"harried and homeless people"
searching for the blessings of
peace and freedom, Mr. Murphy
said that Americans sympathize
the more for this reason with
Jewish effort to create in Pales-
tine a haven of refuge and a
center of culture "where Jews,
free front oppression and perse-
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AT CONCLAVE SESSION

Pointing out that Palestine and
the Jewish people are peculiarly
part of the heritage of civilized
man, Mr. Murphy said that Amer-
ican Jewish activities, through the
United Palestine Appeal to help
rebuild Palestine, had a "mighty
appeal to those of us of other
faiths and races who still find
refuge when the world about us
seems the darkest in the spiritual
teachings of the humble prophets
who dwelt in Zion and in Galilee
many centuries ago."
Mr. Murphy warned that the
world would make a grave mis-
take if it concluded that the re-
vival of intolerance is primarily
or peculiarly a Jewish problem
simply because the Jewish people
have suffered first in lands where
"the lamps of reason have gone
out or have flickered low."
Simon Shetzer of Detroit pre-
sided at the Sunday afternoon
session of the conference at
which Mr. Murphy was the
speaker.

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Count Rene Doynel de Saint-
Quentin, French Ambassador to
the United States, told the dele-
gates to the conference that the
suppression of the problem of
political refugees is foremost
among the war aims of the Al-
lied Powers.
"We are no longer willing,"
the French Ambassador said,
"that hundreds of thousands or
millions of people should be
branded as outlaws by the coun-
try in which they had lived often
for several centuries and should
he thrown without resources and
indeed almost without the barest
necessities on the highway of in-
ternational charity.
"As for Palestine, it will re-
main the very symbol of volun•
tary immigration by energetic
men guided by their faith and
their traditions. May this land,
where three of the greatest re-
ligions of this world were born
or have prospered, offer us the
spectacle of a brotherly unity
among men of different races and
faiths, giving their energy to the
building of a better world."

DR. SILVER RE-ELECTED
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN

Dr. Abba Hine' Silver of
Cleveland was re-elected national
chairman of the United Palestine
Appeal. Simon Shetzer, Fred M.
liutzel and Henry Wineman of
Detroit were elected vice chair-
men.

DUFF COOPER SAYS
BRITAIN MUST DO MORE
FOR HOMELAND

The Rt. Hon. Alfred Duff
Cooper, former First Lord of the
British Admiralty, stated that in
view of the unprecedented and
"ghastly persecution of the Jews,
which is a disgrace and a brand-
ing shame—not only to the coun-
tries that are taking part in it,
but to the whole of Europe and
the whole of Christendom," it is
now obligatory upon Great Brit-
ain to do more for the Jews in
the rebuilding of Palestine than
die "ever promised or intended
'0 do before". Observing that no
!lice has given more to human-
y than the Jews and that no
race asks so little from the world
today, Mr. Cooper said that the
•ountry which the Jews claim as
;heir home is a small patch of
territory, roughly the size of
IA ales, and that in that territory
they should be assured of safety
and independence.
The former British Cabinet
Minister emphasized that where
the Jews have increased the pros-
perity of Palestine, the numbers
of the Arab population have mul-
tiplied. He declared that while,
in his opinion, "contradictory
promises" were given to both
sides in the stress of the World
Great Britain has conscien-
tiously endeavored to carry out
her mandate in Palestine.

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Mr. Cooper declared that the
policy of seeking to show no fa-
voritism, either to Jew or Arab
in Palestine, had failed because
it was unworkable, and called
for a change of policy in which
the government would show
"bias upon one side or the other,"
which he characterized as essen-
tial to success.
In view of the fact that the
Arabs now have an enormous
territory where they are free
to govern themselves in their own
way, instead of existing under
Turkish domination, Mr. Cooper
urged that if the Arabs "wish no
longer to remain in Palestine,
vast spaces of territory await
their expansion". But, he added,
a decision should be taken and
should be announced in no un-
ce•tain terms, that in this "small
historic hind from which so much
has come, the Jews who are suf-
fering; now as they have never
suffered before, should be al-
lowed to feel they have a refuge
and a home."
U. S. Agricultural Expert Hails

"Magnificent Restoration of
Palestine"

Dr. Walter C. Lowdermilk, as-
sistant chief of the Soil Conser-
vation Service of the United
States Department of Agricul-
ture, declared that the Jewish
agricultural colonization of Pal-
estine represented "one of the
most remarkable works of res-
toration and reclamation of waste
lands that I have seen in three
continents." Dr. Lowdermilk,
who conducted a survey of land
use in ancient and modern Pales-
tine, including the recent coloni-
zation program supported by the
United Palestine Appeal, said
that as a result of Jewish enter-
prise, marshy pestilential lands
had been reclaimed by draining
and by the eradication of mala-
ria; wasted lands have been made
to blossom and sand dunes have
been made into locations of thriv-
ing municipalities or have been
converted by irrigation into pro-
duction citrus groves.
Dr. Lowdermilk reported that
the "remarkable restoration and
reclamation work" has been
guided and sustained by a well
thought out experimental and re-
search program.
The soil conservation expert
pointed out that the Jewish pio-
neers in Palestine are demon-
strating that land is an integral
part of the "corporate existence
of a nation, even as its people
are."

Senator King Sees Small Peoples
in Danger of Complete
Annihilation

Declaring that the year 1939
witnessed the dismemberment and
the destruction of many impor-
tant small peoples, Senator Wil-
liam H. King of Utah, speaking
at the banquet session Sunday
night, warned that if the sweep
of brute force is not halted, 1940
may bring the complete disap-
pearance if all small nations from
the face of the earth.
Senator King said that while
Americans had determined to be
neutral in the present conflict,
they can not be neutral in the
anticipation of the outcome. "It
is the sincere hope of all liberal
thinking nwn that the end of
this war will bring the reconsti-
tution of the small states that
have been sacrificed on the altar
of greed." When peace comes,
the Jews, who were the first to
feel the blow of the agressors,
must not be the last to regain
their rights, Senator King said,
adding that "the Jews must not
be a forgotten people."

Resolution Asks Britain to Per-
mit Free Immigration
into Palestine

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dent of the Board of Deputies
of British Jews, and member of
the Jewish Agency for Palestine,
declared that Jews in the United
States are today the vanguard
The public examination in the
Dr. Wise Contrasts Plight of of Jewish existence in the West- study of Gemara, held last Sun-
ern Hemisphere who must take day morning in the Philadelphia-
Polish Jews with Creative
the lead and act as "a buttress Byron Hebrew Schools, was part
Endeavor in Palestine
to Palestine and to the Jews of of a series of such examinations
In his address at the banquet the
European Continent."
held ,periodically in various classes
which marked the close of the
Dr.
Goldstein Contrasts Fate of of the schools. Simultaneously
two day conference of the United
with this examination, similar
Polish Jews with Heroic
Palestine Appeal, Dr. Stephen S.
examinations were held in the
Struggle of Finland
Wise, national co-chairman, who
Paying tribute to the heroic David W. Simons Branch in the
presided, contrasted the "inferno"
of Abraham Twersky, Mrs.
which is the lot of more than struggle for survival in which classes
Lehrman and Meyer Green.
3,000.000 Jews in Poland with 3,000,000 Finns are engaged to- B. At
examination of the Ge-
the achievements of the Jews in day, Dr. Israel Goldstein, presi- mara the
class, Rabbi M. .1. Wohl-
Palestine, who brought "fruitful- dent of the Jewish National Fund gelernter and Rabbi .1. Eisenman,
ness and health to a land of and national co-chairman of the members of the Board of Educa-
United Palestine Appeal, con-
disease and misery."
trasted
the Finnish people's situ- tion of the United Hebrew Schools,
Henry Monsky of Omaha, Neb., ation with
the deplorable plight were present.
president of Bnai Brith, termed.
The next public test in Gemara
of
the
same
number of Jews in
the development of Palestine a Poland, who were
"ground to the will be held in the David W. Si-
"thrilling chapter in Jewish his- dust" and deprived not only of mons Schools On the Sunday pre-
tory."
the opportunities of self-defense, ceding Chamisho ()sot• b'S he vat,
lan. 21. Rabbi Leizer
Judge Morris Rothenberg of but even of "heroic death". had Sunday,
New York, co-chairman of the the same number of Jews lived Levin, a noted Talmudist, is the
Council of the Jewish Agency on its national soil in Palestine, instructor of Gemara. At the
for Palestine and of the United their fate, under the most ad- same time, examinations will be
Palestine Appeal, emphasized the verse circumstances, would have held in Abraham Sehachter's and
catastrophe which has befallen been quite different, he pointed Mrs. E. Teles' classes.
the Jewish community of Poland, out.
who now bring the total number
of Jews under Nazi rule to
Officers Elected by A. Z. A.
2,300,000.
Kurt Blumenfeld, director of
of Windsor
the Palestine Foundation Fund
Herz! Chapter No. 112 of
in Jerusalem, declared that all
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recent large - scale settlement A. Z. A. of Windsor, Ont., re-
plans have failed because of ad- cently elected the following of-
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verse climatic conditions, pro- ficers: President, Paul Berger;
hibitive costs, and the lack of vice president, Leo Gardner;
Large Dining Room for
"an idea and an ideal". He em- treasurer, Jack Packer; reporter,
Parties and Showers
phasized that Jewish colonization Leonard Feldman; chaplain, Mor-
Catering Our Specialty
in Palestine has been so success- ris Solway; sergeants-at-arms,
ful that it remains an experiment Ervin Lewin and Donald Black;
For Reservations Call-
Detroit-Windsor council repre-
no longer.
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The conference adopted a reso- sentative, Donald Black and
lution lauding the stimulating Gashy Strosberg.
and effective leadership which Dr.
Silver gave to the forces of
American Jewry engaged in the
constructive tasks of fund-raising
during the year 1939 through the
United Jewish Appeal.
Mrs. Joseph Stroock, chairman
of the Women's ivision of the
Announces
United Palestine Appeal, who
spoke at the banquet session, said
THE GRAND OPENING OF
that Palestine is a "living monu-
ment to the genius of the Jewish
people."

Appeal the material resources re-
quired to enable the national
funds of the Jewish Agency to
fulfill their imperative tasks in
Palestine."

EXAMINATION IN
HEBREW SCHOOLS

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HAROLD GARBER

GARBER'S

First Session

The keynote of the conference
was sounded by Dr. Silver who
said at the Saturday night ses-
that although an almost "uni-
versal blackout" has come for
mankind and for the Jewish peo-
ple, neither mankind nor the
Jews will yield in its quest for
freedom and the right to live.
Governor Herbert H. Lehman
declared in a message addressed
to the conference that in the
present tragic situation abroad
Palestine "is more needed than
ever as a haven of refuge for
thousands of helpless, harried
human beings who are hopeless
and without means of suste-
nance." To those who are fortu-
nate enough to go there, Pales-
tine offers renewed hope and re-
newed spirit, Governor Lehman
said.
Asserting that the destruction
of the Jewish community in Po-
land, numbering 3,000,000 Jews,
constitutes the greatest challenge
to the capacity of Palestine for
large scale absorption of refugees
in the immediate future, Dr.
Georg Landauer, director of the
Central Bureau for the Settle-
ment of German Jews in Pales-
tine, announced that 70,000 Jews
from Germany had been settled
in Palestine since 1933 at a cost
of only $5,000,000, and that this
influx of refugees was absorbed
on the basis of large scale plan-
ning which made it possible for
the new arrivals to develop new
economic and agricultural activi-
ties. Dr. Landauer pointed out
that fully one-third of the Ger-
man Jewish refugees were settled
on the land, and that they had
established 20 agricultural colo-
nies despite the fact that almost
all of them had formerly been
engaged in business and profes-
sions.
Review ing the
contribution
which Palestine made toward the
solution of the refugee problem
in the year 1939, Dr. Landauer
reported that 35,000 Jews had
been admitted into Palestine in
a period of 12 months ending
September 30, from Germany,
Austria, Poland, Bohemia, Mora-
via, Rumania, and other areas of
distress in Europe. He pointed out
that Jewish immigration was con-
tinuing into Palestine despite the
war and that since the outbreak
of the conflict a total of 9,400
Jewish refugees had arrived on
the shores of Palestine.

Expressing sorrow over the
disaster that has befallen the
great segment of the Jewish peo-
ple represented in the community
of Poland resulting in the help-
lessness and homelessness of
hundreds of thousands of Jews,
the National Conference of the
United Palestine Appeal adopted
a resolution solemnly appealing
to the British government to open
the doors of Palestine to free
Jewish immigration, thus assur-
ing hope and life to thousands
driven from their homes in Cen-
tral and Eastern European lands.
In this resolution the National
Conference affirmed the action of
the Jewish Agency for Palestine
in its rejection of the British
White Paper, declaring it to be
"inconsistent with the obligations
entered into by the Mandatory in
the Balfour Declaration".
As a tribute to Dr. Weizmann,
the conference adopted a resolu-
tion expressing its "high esteem Leader of British Jews Calls upon
and deep affection for the presi-
American Jewry to Assume
dent of the Jewish Agency for
Leadership in Rebuilding of
Palestine, and pledged itself to
Palestine
strengthen his hands by "furnish-
In a cabled message to Dr.
ing through the United Palestine Silver, Dr. Selig Brodetsky, presi-

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