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to The Jewish News)

NEW YORK — The National
Assembly of American Zion-
ists issued a declaration Tues-
day predicting that "the day
will come when Israel will
achieve a self-sustaining econ-
omy and live secure and at
peace with her neighbors."
Meeting at the Statler Hilton
Hotel here on the eve of the
25th World Zionist Congress, to
be convened next month in
Jerusalem, the 1,000 delegates
to the assembly called upon
American Zionists to meet the
"fresh challenges with faith
and courage" and to make Zion-
ism "again the great adventure
that it was for Herzl and the
forerunners of our moveinent."
The declaration referred to
the Zionist idea as "the old-
est living historical force of
the Jewish people" and
called the establishment of
Israel "the product of cen-
turies of human endurance
ennobled by faith — the in-
strument of the unification of
the Jewish people and the in-
gathering of exiles."
The declaration termed Is-
rael "the beginning and not the
end of fulfillment," and said
"it would endure and grow in
stature and content to serve
new and old nations with its
material skills."
"The Zionist movement," the
delegates declared, "while it
stands in the forefront of those
who are preparing that blessed
day, looks beyond it The Zion-
ist movement keeps alive those
Jewish values which give ever-
lasting force and significance
to the existence of the State
of Israel."
(Detroit was represented
at the conference by Law-
rence W. Crohn, who will re-
port on the results of the
Assembly sessions at a meet-
ing of the Zionist Council, at
the Jewish Center, next Wed-
nesday.)
The Assembly proposed a
five-point program aimed at in-
creasing the flow of American
immigrants to Israel. In a re-
port on immigration activities,
Louis Segal, chairman of the
Aliyah Committee of the Jew-
ish Agency for -Israel, recom-
mended that the American
Zionist movement, through its
coordinating arm, the American
Zionist Council:
1. Establish a fund to enable
potential immigrants from the
United States to obtain mort-
gages under favorable condi-
tions for purchase of homes
and other property in Israel.
2. Create an "American town-
ship" in Israel under model
conditions.
3. Make each local Zionist
Council in the United States a
liaison office for the channel-
ing of information concerning
opportunities for Americans
emigrating to Israel.
4. Organize "pre-Aliyah"
tours of Americans seriously in-
tending to settle in Israel.-
5. Encourage American Jew-
ish youth to participate in "Ul-
panim" and workshops in Is-
rael. The Ulpanim intensified
language schools in which He-
brew is learned rapidly.
Segal noted that more than
10,000 Americans had emi-
grated to Israel since the Jew-
ish State was established in
1948. The figures, he declared,
"will show that, during the cal-
endar year 1960, an additional
1,000 Americans will have
settled in Israel permanently."
Segal admitted that the ma-
jor stumbling block to any mass
emigration of American Jews to
Israel has been and will con-
tinue to be the fact that Ameri-
can Jews are reluctant to aban-
don a democratic country with
an unmatched standard of liv-
ing. The only possible way to
solve this problem, said Segal,
is to deal with American Jews
as individuals, rather than in

the mass, thus making it as
convenient as possible for them
to settle in Israel.
Addressing the Assembly,
former Israel Prime Minister
Moshe Sharett termed "irre-
sponsible" any assumption
that Israel is in a present-
position to dispense with the
assets of the Zionist move-
ment outside its borders.
Speaking before 1,000 dele-
gates at the Statler-Hilton
Hotel, he declared that the
"function of the World Zio
ist Organization is so
it would have to be eated
ay."
if it did not exist
the theory
Sharett critici
that the War • ionist , Organ-
be' scrapped in
ization shou
.ystem of separate
favor of
and in•i ual relationships be-
ael and a variety of
tween
splint: Jewish groups in eac
• nations • of the world
of
"Is 1," he said, "must be w
of ny attempt to pursue
r ous course. Not only w d
constitute outright interven-
n on• Israel's part in the af-
rs of foreign nationals, it
ld play havoc with the •
ing of Israel's va
n
s.
velopment
vit
srael is en-
gaged in basic development
work," Sharett declared, "as
long as Jews are driven by
material and spiritual en-
slavement to emigrate to Is-
rael, so long will the Jewish
communities of the free
world be called upon to fi-
nance this development and
this emigration with gift
monies."
Only the central force of the
world Zionist movement, Shar-
ett asserted, was capable of gal-
vanizing world Jewry to meet
these tasks. Admitting that the
World Zionist Organization rep-
resented only a fraction of the
mass of world Jewry, Sharett
nevertheless contended that its
true value would continue to
lie - in the fact that "it is the
only centralized expression of
Jewish allegiance to Israel."
The future of the world
Zionist movement will be
determined by the success
or failure of the Zionist
movement in the United
States, Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
president of the World Zion-
ist Organization, declared at
the National Assembly of the
American Zionist Council.
The 600 delegates at the
opening session were ad-
dressed, in addition to Gold-
mann and Sharrett by Louis
Lipsky, honorary chairman
the American Zionist
and Rabbi Irving
chairman.
asks of Zion-
Discussing t
d, and its speci-
ism at this p
within American
fic proble
Dr. Goldmann said
Jewish
a dangerous illu on
that "i
e, as some in Isra lo,
to ass
e Zionist moveme has
that
d its aims since t State
ful
ablished. The pur
is
Zi ism was to secure
v 1 of the Jewish p
in
c ating a territorial
form of a State, an secur-
t
in this way the unity and
future of the people. It is
hat the State has b
tr
• d and is ma •
esta
progre = this,
none of the essential aims are
yet fulfilled.
"The State itself not having
achieved peace with the Arab
neighbors, nor having become
economically independent, is
far from secure yet, and it will
be able to solve the great prob-
lems of its survival only with
the full support and cooper-
ation of the Jewish people. In
addition, less than 20 percent
of the Jewish people is concen-
trated in Israel, and this is cer-
tainly by far insufficient if Is-
rael should become the terri-
torial center of a Jewish life.
"The Zionist movement is

just as necessary as it was
when it came out with the de-
mand for a Jewish State. The
argument used by the Prime
Minister of Israel, that the
Zionist movement was a scaf-
folding for the building of
the Jewish State and is there-
fore superfluous once the
building is there, is meaning-
less because the main ques-
tion is what kind of a build-
ing
scaffoldin: '
e
.
From t
nt of view, t i.
a'
classic Zionism, with
the State as it is today, with
only 2,000,000 Jews, and in-
secure politically and econ-
omically, are far f r o In
achieved. To his
scaffold'
d
suici
the mist
determined,"
ncluded, "
he
succ s or failure
.S.A.,
ionist
ement in t
most in-
where the largest
community
fluential Jew'
ast decade, the
lives. In
Zionist movement
Ameri
t its dynamism and its
ha
ing role in American Jew-
ish life.
"In order to achieve this, the
American Zionist movement
must act much more united
than is the case today. Its dif-
ferentiation in many Zionist
groups and organizations has
lost most of its meaning, and
prevents a real effective func-
tioning of the movement. The
differences between the vari-
ous Zionist groups in the
U.S.A. are very minimal and
don't justify the present struc-
ture of the movement which
has to develop a new organiza-
tional framework through the
Zionist Council, to unite and
concentrate the efforts of all
Zionists in order to make the
movement the most dynamic
leading force in American Jew-
ish life."
Viewing the relationship
between Israel and the Zion-
ist movement from the oppo-
site end of the spectrum,
Rabbi Miller warned- Israel
against the danger of regard-
ing American Jews as "mere-
ly materialist, to be exploited
for their wealth and indus-
trial techniques."
He contended that, if Is-
rael continues to call upon
American and European Jewry
to declare its faith in the unity
of the Jewish people, it must
balance the scales by :taking
world Je confidence,
n it
d
s cou
a oration. This; Rabbi
ler added, "would constitute
new creative relationship
the making."
Louis Lipsky, dean of Ame
can Zionists, called upon
Da
rael's Prime Mil •
Be
ole
hile
ovement
of th Zi
orld
o the ne
- out a
Ziol t Congress to
e carried
rea tic program
out y it.
the "pluck,
Lipsky pr •
integrity" of Dr.
devotion
dmann, president of
Nahu
d Zionist Organization,
, he said, "deserves the
sympathy and deep understand-
ing -of all -Zionists."
Mayor Wagner drew a paral-
lel between the decision- the
Assembly delegates were to ren-
der on the future of Zionism,
and the decision 67,000,000
Americans had rendered on
November 8 in their choice of
a new President of the United
States.
The mayor urged the dele-
gates not to be diSmayed by the
enemies and detractors of Zion-
ism. "No matter how they at-
tack," he said, "no matter how
they may seek to tear down
your glorious achievements, no
matter how they may attempt
to detract from the historic and

unselfish role you have played
in Israel reborn, they are
doomed to failure. Place your
programs with positive action
before the American people,
and the American Jewish com-
munity. For as Americans you
have a right and an obligation
to continue our labors for the
brotherhood of man and for
Israel."
The organizations represent-

ed at the Assembly include the
American Jewish League for
Israel; B'nai Zion; Hadassah-
Women's Zionist Organization
of America; Religious Zionists
of America; Labor Zionist
Movement; Progressive Zionist
League; United Labor Zionist
Party; United Zionist-Revision-
ists of America; and the Zionist
Organization of America. •

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7 - THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, November 18, 1960

National• Zionist Assembly Calls for
`Faith, Courage' to Strengthen 11 ovement