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. 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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 Apply for This Protection Today! $10,000 ACCIDENT INSURANCE for Only 50c PAYABLE EVERY SIX MONTHS Issued by The Old Line Life Insurance Company of Americe.t , Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Available only to REGULAR DAILY or DAILY and SUNDAY HOME DELIVERY SUBSCRIBERS of the DETROIT TIMES or resident members of the immediate family in a home in which such hOme delivery subscriber also resides. APPLICATION, Print your name and address. 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