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lems, although regional bodies
LONDON.—The reorganized may be organized to facilitate
World Confederation of Gen- unification within the large
eral Zionists concluded its geographic areas.
three-day meeting here Monday
The main headquarters of the
night in complete agreement
on future tasks of the body and Confederation will continue in
with the election of a new exe- New York with three regional
cutive headed by the co-chair- offices to be located in Europe,
men, Dr. Israel Goldstein and Central America and the Carri-
bean countries and South Amer-
Mrs. Rose Halprin.
ica. The highest_ authority will
The parley unanimously reaf- be the world conference of the
firmed its policy of non- Confederation which will deal
identification with any political with all activities of the body,
party in Israel, asserting this including selection of candi-
was the only way to avoid strife dates for the World Zionist
over problems which are within Executive, the Zionist Actions
the exclusive competence of Committee and other bodies
Israel's citizens. However-, it connected with the World Zion-
expressed the conviction that ist Congress.
it was necessary for Israel to
Provision has been made to
safeguard equality of rights for add to the Confederation's ex-
private cooperative and collec- ecutive representatives of new
tive capital in the expansion of groups joining it in the future.
the nation's economic resources. The American representatives
The delegates also reasserted on the new executive include
their belief that the World Mrs. Jacobson, Mrs. Judith
Zionist Organization was the Epstein and Judge Louis E.
most effective me dium for Levinthal. Dr. .Fastlich will
carrying out the traditional represent the Mexican General
Zionist tasks of Hebrew educa- Zionists, Dr. Bronfman, the
tion, immigration and Halutziut. Argentine Centrists, Topiol,
They reaffirmed support for those of France, and Barnett
the Hanoar Hatzioni youth Janner and L. Bakstansky, the
group and hailed its role in British General Zionists.
building Israel and pledged aid
The confederation was split
in development of Zionist- recently over identification of
oriented youth groups and day Zionist parties outside of Israel
schools in countries outside over with political groups in
Israel.
Israel. The group holding the
On the organizational level, opposite view will meet in Is-
the Confederation indicated rael next week.
Mrs. Halprin and Dr. Gold-
readiness to accept as mem-
bers all groups, in any country, stein told General Zionist lead-.
that are prepared to accept its ers that Jewish people in coun-
principles and program. Each tries outside of Israel could
group joining the Confedera- express their opinions with re-
tion would retain full autonomy gard to internal affairs in Israel
directly, not through political
parties in Israel.
Turning to Premier David
Ben-Gurion's insistence that
Zionism has failed because the
majority of Zionists did not
settle in Israel, Mrs. Halprin
said the Zionist leadership
would challenge this view. She
felt that Israel looked at Jews
in other countries only in the
light of its own needs, not in
the perspective of the require-
ments of Jewish communities
abroad. She noted that the
Diaspora was a fact of life and
would probably remain so for
a long time.
Dr. Goldstein sketched in the
details of the split within the
centrist movement and the rea-
sons for the present conference
of groups who were opposed to
the principle of identification
with Israeli political parties.
Outlining the support within
the General Zionist movement
KOSHER FOR PASSOVER for the Confederation's position,
ESHER
Dr. Goldstein said that his fac-
tion included Hadassah, the
majority of the General Zion-
ists in Europe and North
Africa, the British Zionist Fed-
eration and groups from various
Latin American countries.
Dr. Goldmann, Lipsky
Support Non-Identification
In a message to the parley,
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, presi-
dent of the Jewish Agency and
the World Zionist Organization,
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said: "I have always maintained
tinental Chocolate
that the creation of a strong
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world confederation not affi-
the Sabbath and all
liated
or identified politically
Jewish holidays.
with par ties in Israel is
essential for maintaining unity
The name BARTON'S
and a strong General Zionism
is your guarantee it's
outside Israel. I hope the new
fKOSHER-FOR-PASSOVER
Confederation succeeds in
BARTON'S DETROIT SHOPS:
unifying General Zionists the
world over."
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Louis Lipsky, veteran Ameri-
7541 W. McNichols nr. San Juan can Zionist, sent a message to
the conference, declaring that
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the "pressures of the last ten
years had revolutionized Jew-
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ish life, and Zionism cannot
isolate itself but must adapt
itself" to the situation. The
Confederation, Mr. Lipsky con-
tinued, must free itself from
"partisanizing and fractioniz•
imagine!
such
baked delicacies
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and oven-fresh
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Open Evenings
and Sundays
ing." Party dogmas and pro-
cedures, he said, "hamper the
development of Zionism in the
Diaspora and distort life in
Israel."
He argued that the commu-
nities in the Diaspora, like
Jewry in Israel, should have
"the right of a. life of its own"
and must not be considered
only an organized segment of
life in Israel." He held that
while such segments must not
try to apply pressure through
Israeli parties, the Israeli po-
litical parties should not try to
influence Zionist political life
throughout the world.
Opposition to Proclaim World
Union of General Zionists
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Leading
General Zionist from the United
States, Latin America, Europe
and Australia who favor close
cooperation with the General
Zionist Party in Israel, began
arriving In Israel to participate
in the conference which is
scheduled to proclaim a new
General Zionist confederation
to be named "The World Union
of General Zionists." Formal
proclamation of the new group
will establish legally what has
existed in fact for years—a split
among General ,Zionist parties
throughout the world.
The conference, slated to
open March 15, will be ad-
dressed by Dr. Emanuel Neu-
mann, president of the Zionist
Organization of America, who
has been proposed for the first
president of the new union.
Other speakers will include L.
Dulzin, Mexican Zionist leader
and Jewish Agency executive
members, and Israeli General
Zionist leader Joseph Saphir.
Among the members of the
ZOA delegation is Jacques
Torczyner.
Niemoller Declares
Church Shares Guilt
of Six Million Dead
3,000 Tons of Arms Are Embargoed
PARIS (JTA)—The B-17 en
route from Israel to South
America which was f or c e d
down last week at Bone, Al-
geria, by engine trouble, left
for Lydda airport, together with
the plane which brought a
spare engine and a gang of
mechanics.
However, though the Flying
Fortress and its crew have been
released, the three-ton cargo of
arms valued at $80,000 remains
impounded in Algeria under a
French customs detention or-
der. The Israel government has
explained that the arms were
sold to a friendly Latin Ameri-
can government and were in
Algeria only in transit and in
accordance with a previously
filed flight plan which called
for stopovers at Algiers and
Dakar.
The French government has
decided not to publish any of-
ficial statement on the incident.
The Israel government will not
protest detention of the plane
and the holding of its cargo in
order not to jeopardize rela-
tions with France. It is believed
here that the incident has been
blown up all out of proportion
because of inter-ministerial ri-
valry in the French government.
Israeli military attache Col.
P. Kadah left Algiers a f ter
vainly trying to contact the
crew of the B-17, which includes
one Israeli national. He hoped
to contact the crew before it
took off for the return flight
to Lydda.
The six-man crew was en-
gaged in Israel to fly the plane,
sold to an American company
just prior to this flight. The
arms, including several hun-
dred bazookas, four mortars and
100 submachine guns, and the
plane were sold by the Israel
Ministry of Defense as obsolete.
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Protestant Church in Germany,
on the invitation of the Kiel
Protestant Student Community
in February, according to Schle-
swig-Holsteinische Volkszeitung,
of Kiel.
Niemoeller stressed that the
six million Jewish victims of
the Third Reich were to some
extent also the responsibility of
the Church which had con-
doned National Socialism and
had not taken an unambiguous
stand against Anti-Semitism. By
keeping silent when the Jews
had been deprived of their
rights as human beings, the
Church had shared in the Nazis'
guilt. He concluded by ques-
tioning whether the Church had
"genuinely atoned for its guilt-
laden past" and whether it was
not in danger to succumbed to
new temptations in other
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Zionists Split Over Identification Issue; France Releases Plane Downed in
Decisions of Parley Meet With Opposition Algeria Enroute from Israel, But