Evening star., 1925-06-21
z|ON|STS EXPECT
OPPOSITION HERE
Strong Fight on "American
Plan" Probable at Conven-
tion Opening Next Sunday.

The twenty eighth annual conven-
ton of the Zionist Organization of
America opens here Sunday. June
2S, with over 700 delegates from all
parts of the United States coming to
celebrate the advances made in the
upbuilding of the Jewish homeland in
Palestine during the past Year. The
will be followed by the annual con-
vention Of Hadassah, the women S
Zionist organization. which Will also
continue for two days.
Leading American ZioniSts. who
have recently returned from surveys
of the Jewish homeland movement in
Palestine will report on the progress
made during the past year, featured
by the most extensive colonization and
largest immigration in the history of
Zionism and by the opening of the
Hebrew University on Mount Scopus
by Lord Balfour.
The convention this year is conSid-
cred of utmost Importance by Zionist
leaders throughout the world, because
definite action will be taken on ques-
tions relative to the administration of
the Palestine mandate and brought
before the World Zionist Congress. SUI
holds its biennial sessions in Vienna
on August 1927.
American Zionist leaders, headed by
Louis Lipsky, chairman of the Zionist
organization, are backing DR.. Chain
WeiZmann, president of the World
Zionist Organization, in his efforts to
have non-ZioniSts cooperate, through
the Jewish agency, in upbuildinS
Palestine. The mandate issued by
Britain provides that the development
of Palestine as the Jewish homeland
shall be carried on in cooperation with
the Jewish agency, which, until other
wise changed, shall consist of the
World Zionist Organization.
During the past year, as a result of
DR.. WeiZmann'S leadership. steps have
been taken to extend the Jewish
agency and include so per cent Zion
lists and 80 per cent non-Zionists. Dur
ing his last visit to America this
Spring, DR.. WeiZmann, in co-opera
ton with Louis Marshall, Felix NJ.
Warburg, Samuel Untermyer, Mr.
Lipsky and other leading American
Jews, launched the organization of the
American branch of the Jewish
agency on this basis.
american Plan" Opposed.
opposed the extension of the Jewish
agency. which they call the "Ameri
can plan" and efforts will be made at
the World Congress in Vienna to vote
down the project. This opposition is
expected to develop first at the Ameri-
can convention, where Zionist leaders
will strongly champion the program
of DR.. Weizmann to have Palestine
built up through the cooperation of
all Jews, irrespective of their views on
Zionism.
The convention this year will def.
nitely mark the closing of the breach
in American Zionist ranks which has
existed since the Cleveland convention
four years ago, when a group. headed
by Justice Louis d. Brandies, Dr.
stephen S. Wise and Judge Julian n.
Mack, broke away from the organiZa-
ton over the establishment of the Pal
estine Foundation Fund. Most of the
Zionists who then quit the organiza-
ton, will be present at this years con-
vention.
The convention will close with a pill
grimage to the tomb of Woodrow
Wilson, where exercises will be held in
memory of the outstanding contribu-
ton of the late President toward the
furthering of the Jewish Homeland
movement.