Evening star., 1925-06-29
$19,0O0,0DO BUDGET
URGED BY z|0N|STS
World Congress Here to Be
Asked to Double Size of
Palestine Fund.

| Increase Of the budget for Zionist
activities in upbuilding the Jewish
homeland in Palestine to more than
twice its present size, or a total OF
SIS, 900 900 for the two years com
mencing October l next, was recon-
mended to the Zionist Organization OF
America at the Mayflower Hotel to-
day by Emmanuel Neuman of New
| York, chairman of the budget com
mittee of the last wrold Zionist con
gress.
Aside from this recommendation af
| fecting the budget, other topics OF
importance bearing on the Palestin
| ian project expected to come before
| the convention today were the pro
posed extension of 1.-The Jewish
Agency official Jewish body ad
| visory to the British mandate officials
and the question Of Great Britain's
| policies in establishing the Jewish
homeland under the League Of Nations
mandate. Delegates this morning We're
on a sightseeing tour, and were to
convene at l o'clock for the first ses
sion of the day.
The address yesterday by j. Joyce
Broderick, counselor of the British
embassy, in which he assured the
Zionists of Great Britain's willing
ness to carry out the mandate and
live up to all her pledges. and in which
he referred frankly to some criticism
of Great Britain's policies was warmly
welcomed by the delegates. There
was even some intimation that the
committee formulating resolutions on
the question of Great Britain's ad
ministration of the mandate might
now be inclined to soften some OF the
criticism which it had been expected
by some close observers to level at
Great Britain.
Many Grievances Aired.
Among the criticisms which were
said to have been current in Zionist
circles we're that Great Britain had
failed to turn over State lands to Jew
ish colonists. in spite of authority
in the mandate: that it had failed SO
far to put In effect a nationality act.
providing Palestinian citizenship to
immigrated Jews. and that there had
been delay in granting promised au-
tonomy to Jewish communities.
The question of extension Of the
Jewish Agency to include non
Zionists'' was discussed by Morris
Rothenberg of New York City. He
championed the position taken by
Chain Weizmann, president of the
World Zionist organization. and by
Louis Lipsky, chairman of the Zionist
organization in America. expressed
yesterday that the opportunity to
work in the Jewish Agency should be
thrown open to all Jews. At present
the mandate provides for the Jewish
Agency being the Zionist organization.
MIR. Rothenberg traced the history of
the movement to include non-ZioniSts
and pointed to the organization of the
American branch of the Jewish
Agency, which is being established on
basis of so per cent Zionists, and
so per cent n-ZioniStS.
Israel Goldberg was on the program
to discuss the Jewish National Home
Under the Mandate"
All three of the questions before the
convention this afternoon were ex
pected to cause sharp discussion at
| the World Zionist Congress in Vienna
| in August. Zionist leaders through
| out the world were said to be anX
iously awaiting the action which the
American convention will recommend
to the World Congress. The Amer
lean organization Is the largest in the
World Zionist Congress.
Budget Fight Likely.
The new budget program proposed
| by Mr.. Neumann is expected to pre-
| cipitate a hot debate at the Vienna
Congress, because vigorous opposition
| is anticipated from the left wing OF
| the Zionist organization, who regard
| the proposed budget as favoring the
middle class settlers in Palestine
They contend that the funds collected
through the official agencies of the
Zionist movement should be used to
encourage colonization on a co-opera
tive or collective basis, while indus
trial and commercial developments
should seek private capital as best
they can.
The divisions of the revised budget
as proposed by Mr.. Neumann, are:
Palestine Foundation Fund, for i'm.
migration, colonization. schools, sani
tation, ETC., $7,OOo.O00; Jewish Ma.
tional Fund, for the purchase of addi.
tional land, s2.0O0,O00; investment
capital, to provide Industrial. mort.
gage and agrarian credits and to in.
crease the capital of existing Pales.
tine banks, s5,000,000; the Gutenberg
Electrical Concession, which is har.
Messing the Jordan River to electrify
Palestine, and which has already
opened it's first electric power plants
in the country, $5,000.00O for special
financing.
approximately $4,000 new immi
grants can be permanently settled in
Palestine during the next two years
and the ground will be prepared for
a great many more to follow, If this
s19 900 900 is provided in FULL" Mr.
Neumann declared.
Plans Bank Expansion.
He rointed out that under the pro
visions of the proposed revised budget
the chief support of the Zionist move
ment would continue to be the Pal
estine Foundation Fund. which in
the four years of its existence has
expended more than $8,000,000 foI
constructive enterprises in develop
ing the Jewish homeland. His pro
posals also call for an expansion OF
the existing Zionist financial insti
tutions-the Jewish Colonial Trust
the Anglo-Palestine banks, the Gen
eral Mortgage Bank of Palestine and
the Workmen's Bank, whose com
bined paidup capital is about $780,,
900, although their authorized capital
is several times that amount.
The convention will hold its fourth
session tonight and will close tomor-
row night. Delegates were welcomed
yesterday by Commissioner J. Frank
lin Bell, Rabbi J. T. Loeb and Rabbi
Louis Schwefel of this city.
Resolutions were passed commend
ing DR.. Chain Weizmann, Sir Her
bert Samuel and Lord Herbert c.
The Natural