Friday, August 17, 1945

THE JEWISH NEWS

Zionists Hear Plan to Settle
1,000,000 Jews in Palestine

Eliezer Kaplan Shows How Collection of Billions Stolen From
Jews of Europe Could Accomplish Objective;
World Zionisf Conference in London Ends

LONDON, (JPS-Palcor)—A gigantic plan for. the settle-
ment in Palestine of 1,000,000 Jews, European survivors and
residents of Eastern countries, was revealed here by Eliezer
Kaplan, treasurer of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, who
stated that the official designation of Palestine as a Jewish
Commonwealth, with the rights accruing therefrom, and in-
ternational financial assistance,.;;

probably in the form of repara-
tions from Germany, were a pre-
requisite for the implementation
of his plan.
The scheme is being studied
by non-Jews as well as Jews,
and the cost of its realization is
estimated at anywhere between
$1,200,000,000 on the pre-war
basis, and $1,800,000,000. The
money stolen from the Jews of
Europe by Germany and its
satellites is set at 7 to 12 bil-
lion, and were Jews to collect a
fraction of the reparations due
them, the plan's financing could
be assured. A united Jewish
claim for reparations, he felt,
had good prospects for success.
Last year's Jewish Agency in-
come from America, through the
United Palestine Appeal, was
$10,000,000, and this year it will
be some $15,000,000; nevertheless
this is inadequate when com-
pared with the $10 per capita
contributed last year by the
Jews of Palestine, Where the cost
of living is high and wages in-
credibly lower. The sum of
$26,000,000 is required immedi-
ately for the settlement of the
first large influx from Europe,
with $400 being the minimum re-
quired to provide a new im-
migrant with the barest neces-
sities, Mr. Kaplan pointed out.
Ben Gurion's Plan
Major developments at the
World Zionist Conference here
last week included: David ben
Gurion's submission of a five
point program, headed by pro-
posals for "passive and active
resistance" to the White Paper;
Mizrachi's withdrawal from the
World Zionist Executive Com-
mittee, and demand for a new
Executive with a "clearly de-
fined policy"; a reported clash.
-between Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
and his second-in-command,
David ben Gurion, over what
the Manchester Guardian de-
scribed as not the ultimate goal,
but over the methods of achiev-
ing that goal, with Dr. Weitz-
mann maintaining his belief in
the "gradual" evolvement of a
Jewish state; and the American
delegation reportedly in agree-
ment with Ben Gurion that it is
"now or never."
The program submitted by Mr.
Ben Gurion proposes:
1. Passive and active resist-
ance to the implementation or
continuation of the White Paper
policy, in its present form or in
any modified shape; the strength-
ening of immigration, settle-
ment and Jewish security activ-
ities under all circumstances and
with all means, and the mobiliz-
ation for this purpose of all
possible- forces and financial
means of Palestine and of Jew-
ries elsewhere, especially the
Jewries in the Anglo-Saxon
countries;
2. The rallying of the rem-
nants of European Jewry, head-
ed by Jewish youth, as active
Zionist forces, for the purpose of
their speedy transfer to Pales-
tine;
Chalutziuth Principle
3. Assertion of the principles
of Chalutziuth (Palestine pio-
neering) in the education of
Jewish youth in all lands, with-
out exception; the intensification
and broadening of Zionist and
Hebrew education among the
'Jewish people in the Oriental
countries and in North Africa,
the deepening amidst Jews ev-
erywhere of the consciousness
that the resettlement of Pales-
tine is a historic_ necessity for
the entire Jewish people with-
out distinction of land of resi-
dence, regime and continent, and
that a Jewish state is indispens-
able for the honorable existence
even of those Jews who desire
to remain outside Palestine;
4. Increased political activity
in England and other centers of

the United Nations for the pur-
pose of immediate designation
of Palestine as a Jewigh state;
the granting of requiSite au-
thority and financial means to
the Jewish people (either
through the Jewish Agency or
through a provisional Govern-
ment) for effecting the speedy
transfer of the first million Jews
to Palestine from European
countries, as well as Oriental and
other countries, and to carry
through works of reclamation
and irrigation and schemes of
power, industrial, agricultural
and m a r i ti me development,
which. will make possible the set-
tlement of additional millions,
while raising the standard of
living of all inhabitants of
Palestine, Jews and Arabs
alike;

5. Incessant striving toward
cooperation with the Arabs of
Palestine in order to develop the
country to the utmost for the
benefit of all inhabitants, and
toward an alliance of friendship
between the Jewish state and the
Arab peoples in the neighbor-
ing countries, on the basis of
mutual assistance for the wel-
fare, peace and progress of all
countries in the Middle East.
The official designation of
Palestine as a Jewish Common-
wealth, with the rights accru-
ing from such status, is a pre-
reqUisite for the immediate mass
settlement of Europe's Jews,
keen to embark on their exodus
for the Jewish National Home,
Eliezer Kaplan, treasurer of the
Jewish Agency for - Palestine,
told the World Zionist Confer-
ence, in the course of a report
on past and anticipated achieve-
ments.
It is generally believed here
that Mizrachi, religious ortho-
dox wing of the World Zionist
movement, will withdraw its
ultimatum which made further
Mizrachi participation- in the
World Zionist Executive Com-
mittee dependent on the commit-
tee's reorganization. Mizrachi's
reversal is expected to follow
official clarification of Zionist
policy by a special commission.
It is also doubtful whether pro-
posals sponsored by some Am-
ericans to add Dr. Abba Hillel

Silver and Dr. Stephen S. Wise,
co-chairmen of the American
Zionist Emergency Council, to
the American residency of the
Jewish Agency, will be accepted.
Opponents of the proposal con-
tend that it would upset the
whole structure of the Executive
Committee.
Stand of Labor Party
Replying to Dr. Nahum Gold-
man's speech stressing the need
for immediate action by the
Labor Government on the Pal-
estine question, Berl Locker,
liaison officer between the Jew-
ish Agency for Palestine and the
British Labor movement, said
that he agreed that great pres-
sure must be applied by the
Zionist movement. He pointed
out that Palestine was not in-
cluded in the British Labor
Party's election program; Pal-
estine was dealt with in a resolu-
tion only, and therefore immedi-
ate action should not be expect-
ed before the British Labor Gov-
ernment has dealt with prob-
lems of a more pressing nature
from the Government's view-
point.
He also replied to those who
had alleged that the Executive
Committee had not done enough
to negotiate with Russia and woo
her toward the Zionist view-
point. Great efforts have actual-
ly been made in this direction,
he said, and efforts are continu-
ing. The Russian Trade Union
delegation not only voted for the
Palestine resolution at the Trade
Union Conference in London,
but actually assisted in the
formulation and passage of the
resolution in committee, he said.
Won't Be Deterred by Obstacles
Belgian Zionist Werber as-
serted at the Zionist conference
here that "the majority of Bel-
gian Jews are anxious to settle
in Palestine and won't be deter-
red by any obstacles in their
path to Palestine." In this con-
nection he recalled the fortitude
manifested by Belgian Jewry in
its underground resistance to the
Nazi occupational forces. He
described the rescue of many
thousands of Jewish children
through the Jewish underground
working in cooperation with the
B e 1 g i an partisan movement.
These children, growing into
adolescence, see no future on the
continent and will break past all
barriers to enter Palestine, he
said.
As the political debate con-
tinued, A. Zisling, Palestine
Laborite, leader of Group B of
Mapai dissidents, declared that
partition of Palestine was no
solution for the Jews, and quot-
ed the decision of the Asseph-
ath Hanivcharim, Jewish Pales-
tine's General Assembly, as the
accepted policy of the Yishuv as
regards partition.
Dr. Goldmann's Warning
Implying disagreement with
Dr. Weizmann on the status of

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Jewish Palestine should the Veterans Will Conduct
ultimate decision on Jewish
statehood claims be postponed, High Holyday Services
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, repre-
Leon Ginsburg, chairman of
sentative in America of the
Jewish Agency for Palestine, the housing committee of the
warned that deferment for five State Department of Michigan
years of a decision on Jewish Jewish War Veterans, announc-
statehood would constitute a de- es that the department head-
feat for Zionism even if 100,000 quarters on 12th and Seward will
immigration certificates were of- be used for High Holyday ser-
vices. The hall has been re-
fered as a palliative.
At the same time he asserted decorated. A fine cantor has.
that the Zionist conference itself been engaged.
Tickets are being sold to the
was called prematurely for
public, but all servicemen and
political decisions.
women in uniform are invited
Defends British Jewry
to attend as guests of the Jew-
Prof. Selig Brodetsky, presi- ish War Veterans.
dent of the Board of Deputies
of British Jews, defended British
Hun Reich Wants Jews Back
Jewry against its critics at the
GENEVA (JPS)—An appeal to
World Zionist, Confere-nce. In German-Jewish refugees living
view of the heroism of Polish
in Britain, North and South
Jewry, he said, he felt restrained
America, to return to the Reich
to talk of the latror of British
because without their help the
Jewry during the war years,
democratic reconstruction of Ger-
which was considerable. The
many is impossible, was publish-
Jews of England had not forgot- ed in the Berlin newspaper,
ten their brethern. He alSo stat- Sozialistische Volkszeitung. The
ed that the financial provisions paper praises Jewish contribu-
for the London office of the tions to German industry, com-
World Zionist Executive Com- merce, literature and art.
mittee were inadequate, and,
turning to Ben Gurion's resist-
ance program, he said that Ben the Colonial Secretary, and what
-Gurion's statement "evoked mis- the Jews have already shown
interpretations" and stressed by wresting settlements from the
"that we must be cautious with desert is what he regards as
regard to the new Government practical politics, Dr. Weizmann
which has not as yet, .declaredl pointed out. In the past few
years, the foundation of the
its policy."
Dr. Weizmann's Reply Jewish state had been laid, and
the construction will. continue
Zionists know that when all
purely through Jewish effort.
other methods will have failed,
Criticism aimed at Zionist lead-
they can rely on their leaders
ership should really be aimed
in Palestine to take appropriate
at the Jewish people- as a
measures, Dr. Weizmann told
the World Zionist Conference. whole, for the Jews did not res-
pond sufficiently in the early
Jewry knoWs that a state' will
years following the Balfour
not be presented to it on a silver
Declaration and did not provide
platter, and that it will require
the necessary financial means.
superhuman effort in the future
The war against Hitler is not
as in the past.
Regarding the clamor for new over yet, he warned, and there
forces in 3ionist leadership, he is still grave danger for the
said that Jewry's resources in Jews, but he expressed hope that
manpower, physically and in- the Jews would overcome all
tellectually, have been depleted, dangers.
and that these depletions will
have to be replenished by the
Jews of America whose growing
maturity is indicated by the
growth of the Zionist movement
in the United States.
He continued in the firm be-
lief that practical politics were
more important than talks with

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