Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
PALESTINE COLONY
| ON LVAGED LAND
IS PLAN OF JEWISH
National Fund Conference to
Raise $2,500,00O for
Project by July |.
zIONISTS' PRESIDENT
HITS BRITISH POLICY
Robert Sold Asks Shift in Holy
Land officials and
Mandate.

A decision which will, when carried
out, link the names of communities in
the United States with the reclamation
of q considerable tract of land in
Palestine was the outcome of the Ma
tional Conference of the Jewish Ma
| tional Fund of America, held yesterday
at the Willard Hotel under the chair
manship of Emmanuel Newman,
American Zionist leader and president
of the national fund.
The plan includes a five-year recla-
nation project on land to be acquired
and a drive to raise $2,500,000 in
America before July l for the urgent
! ton in Palestine. The reclamation
program, proposed by Menahem Ussish-
kin, president of the Jewish National
Fund of Jerusalem, was unanimously
Endorsed by 500 delegates attending the
session.
The National Advisory Council of the
Zionist Organization of America gave
the financial campaign its sanction at
the instance of Robert Sold, Zionist
president.
Raps British Control.
Demands for a change in the pres
ent control over Palestine by Great
Britain we're voiced at both meetings,
Sold urging that officers lin greater
sympathy with the upbuilding of the
Jewish National Home" be placed in
power.
The resolution for the five-year plan,
or the USSishkin plan, as 1t is called in
recognition of its sponsor, was presented
to the conference by Ezra Shapiro Of
Cleveland, Ohio, and was seconded by
number of leaders of various organ
izations represented at the session. The
colony which 1t is proposed to estab-
lish on the Jewist national fund land
is to bear the name of Ussishkin.
A new body to work under the direc-
ton Of the Jewish National Fund of
America, to be known as the Keren
Kayemeth League, was created by a
resolution for carrying the project to
a successful conclusion. The league,
which will have branches in all parts
of the country, will undertake to raise
the necessary sums. A council for
conducting this work includes among
its members two Westinghouse, Paul
Himmelfarb and Bernard Danzansky.
Einstein Sends Word.
Two other resolutions call for erec-
ton of memorials to the late Nathan
Straus, American philanthropist, and
other resolution felicitated the work Of
Ussishkin on the completion of half a
century of work in the Zionist move
ment.
Greetings for the conference and ex-
pressions of approval of its purposes
were received from DR.. Albert Einstein,
the famous author of the relatively
theory, a convinced Zionist and sup
porter of the Jewish National Fund;
Secretary of Agriculture Hyde and DR..
Elwood Mead, head of the Reclamation
Bureau, Department of the Interior.
The first cash contributions for the
acquisition of specific tracts in the
names of groups from Washington, Bal
timore and Providence. r. l., were pre-
sented to USsishkin at the concluding
session.
Palestine Policy Scored.
An indictment of the British policy
in Palestine during the past 13 years
was presented by UsSishkin, who charged
that British authorities. disregarding
the clear intent of the Palestine man
date, failed to facilitate the upbuilding
of the Jewish National Home and with
retarding. Jewish progress in the coun-
try. This failure has been demon
strated, he said, in the British handling
Of the Palestine land problem.
He warned American Jews mot to be
deceived" by announcements from Lon
don concerning a forthcoming under
standing to be reached between the
British government and the leaders OF
the Jewish Agency for Palestine through
negotiations dealing with the difficulties
which have arisen since the issuance of
the Passfield White Paper last october.
Neumann, president Of the national
fund, urged the establishment of an
international commission similar to the
one which functioned recently for the
settlement in Greece of the Greek refu-
gees from Turkey. Participation of an
outstanding American in the work of
such a commission, he said, would be
an essential condition.