Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News in local organizational prob- 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, At Barton's 65 Con. said: "I have always maintained tinental Chocolate that the creation of a strong Shops. Closed on 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." 13210 DEXTER nr. Davison Louis Lipsky, veteran Ameri- 7541 W. McNichols nr. San Juan can Zionist, sent a message to the conference, declaring that 18309 Wyoming (in Wyoming- the "pressures of the last ten years had revolutionized Jew- Curtis Shopping Center) 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 CJ wrwz parve and oven-fresh pARTONIS 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. JOHNNY LEBOW Is NOW GENERAL MANAGER OF HANLEY DAWSON UN 4-2300 14501 W. 7 MILE RD. (1 BI. W. of Couzens Hwy.) ..... S • •"best KIEL (WJA) — "Anti-Semit- ism as the Guilt of the Church" was the subject of an address delivered by Pastor . Martin Niemoeller, president of the 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 spheres. • • • MIMI ON. OF AO. MOP Mb 01110. -' 1111111, investment • • • 1 ever made" . . . was when I opened an American Savings account. It's helped in emergencies, and is going to help send my son through college. With American Savings higher rate, my savings earn more. Yes sir ! . . . there's nothing like "Saving the American Way !" • • • • • • • • C-0-N-F-I-D-E-N-C-E 0 We sell at Manufacturers Suggested Prices! 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