WJC-Zionist Merger Rumors Denied at Geneva Conference GENEVA, (JTA)—Rumors that the World Jewish Congress and the World Zionist Organization may amalgamate were denied here by Dr. Nahum Goldmann and Dr. Israel Goldstein, leaders of the WJC and members of the WZO executive. Such a merger is not possible, Dr. Goldmann declared, because the Zionist Organization repre: sentation is based on parties while the WJC representation is based on communities. Dr. Gold- mann • repudiated charges that his suggestion to strengthen the World Jewish Congress was cam : ouflage for making it an annex of the Zionist movement and the State of Israel. movement to urge Jews to go to Israel in order to assist in its development. "But I have never indicated that all Jews outside Israel should regard themselves as Is- raelis or potential Israelis," he emphasized. "This is a complete contradiction of my basic con- ception of Jewish life, as my en- tire record will confirm. "I have emphatically stated, and repeated in my opening ad - dress here, that it is certain that during the foreseeable future, a very large part of the Jewish people, if not the majority, will remain outside Israel," Dr. Gold- mann declared. He said that the Jewish com- munities outside of Israel had .their own important and essen- tial problems. "It is a funda- mental error to regard Israel as the only center of Jewish life and to consider the Jews in the Diaspora as no more than a source of permanent, material support for Israel," he declared. from the Iron Curtain coun- tries invoked a sharp exchange between Sidney Silverman, British member of Parliament and Dr. Goldmann. Mr. Silver- man alleged that • the absence was due to the failure of the executive to - invite the dele- gates. Dr. Goldmann therefore gave a detailed account of nu- merous efforts to make contact with affiliated organizations of the WJC in Poland, Czech- oslova,kia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania. "The Jewish groups in Czech- oslovakia and Bulgaria formally withdrew from the WJC ;" Dr. Goldmann stated. "They wrote us that they did- not want to have Expansion Advocated anything to do with us. The cen- tral Jewish organizations affili- • Both leaders expressed the ated with us in Poland, Hun- opinion that the WJC should be- gary, Rumania, simply never re- expanded by the addition of ma- sponded to the invitations we jor groups to form an all-em- sent them thr ough official and bracing international organiza- 'unofficial' channels. tion to concern itself with Jew- Dr. Goldmann reminded the ish problems of common con- British delegate that Jews from cern. the Iron Curtain countries went Dr. Goldstein, who sought to Israel Goldstein, president back on all resolutions which allay the fears of some Of the delegates that an enlarged or- of the American Jewish Con- they had unanimously supported ganization, or a successor to the. gress, speaking of the contri- during the plenary session of WJC, might eliminate "an bution of American Jews to the World JeWish Congress at ideological - based organization the upbuilding of the State of • Montreux in 1948. "Nor did they such as the WJC," insisted that Israel, admitted that they have even deign to occupy the seats there was room and need for an given the least of manpower on the executive of the WJC organization based on the prin- but pointed out that the which they were urged time and ciple of the oneness of the Jew- American community has been again to fill," he pointed out. Mr. Silverman later took the ish people, devoted to the cultur- second only to the Jewish com- al and moral implications of that munity in Israel as a factor of floor to withdraw his personal struggle, and dedicated to the . importance in the establish- references to Dr.. Goldmann. Pro-Soviet Delegates Checked centrality of Israel in the strug- ment of the Jewish State. gle for Jewish survival. The Marchioness of Reading, In Attempt to Attack U. S. Goldmann Denies He Urged chairman of the British Section Moshe Erem, a pro-Soviet Ma- All Jews Be Regarded as Israelis of the WJC, declared that "re- parr delegate from Israel, ques- Dr. Goldmann protested the lations between Israel and the tioned the objectivity of Dr. "unfortunate misinterpretations" Jews throughout the world can Goldmann. He charged that Dr. by some newspapers of remarks not be blue-printed." She insist- Goldmann omitted in his presi- made in his speech opening the' ed that events relating to Israel dential address any reference to Third Plenary Assembly of the specifically and the world in fascist and, anti-Semitic organi- Congress. - general are still in the "womb of zations which, he claimed, are I have repeatedly said that time and we cannot and should condu'thng their activities open- Israel needs many more immi- not attempt a premature birth." ly in the United States. grants for consolidation, and She also called upon Jews to every Jew who wants to emi- work through the United Na- grate to Israel has the right," tions to carry on the fight Dr. Goldmann declared. "It is against anti-Semitism and for the full right of the Zionist human rights and stressed that Jewish problems were tied up with world problems. AJC Takes Issue With Goldmann NEW YORK, (JTA)—Issue was taken by Jacob Blaustein, presi- dent of the American Jewish Committee, with a statement made by Dr. Nahum Goldmann at the Plenary assembly of the World Jewish "Congress in Ge- neva in which he reportedly said that "there is no other state in the world where nearly 90 per cent of the people live outside of it." Mr. Blaustein said that this view "is refuted by virtually all Jews in the free world, includ- ing tir United States." He quo- ted a statement of views adopt- ed by the American Jewish Corn- mittee in January 1949 which declared that "citizens of the United States are Americans and citizens of Israel are Israelis; this we affirm with all its im- plications." MILLIONS OF BOTTLES SOLD. 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