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NATIONAL REFUGEE SERVICE AND NATIONAL COUNCIL
OF JEWISH WOMEN COORDINATE WELFARE SERVICE
IN BEHALF OF NEWCOMERS ARRIVING IN U. S. A.
New York.—Plane for the es-
tablishment of a major national
welfare service for newcomers in
the United States were announc-
ed today by Mrs. Joseph M. Welt,
President of the National Coun-
cil of Jewish Women, and Edwin
Rosenberg. First Vice President
of the National Refugee Service,
Inc.
The plans provide for the con-
solidation of the programs of the
National Refugee Service and the
National Service to Foreign Born
of the National Council of Jew-
ish Women. The consolidation is
designed to strengthen the ser-
vices which have been provided
by the NRS and NCJW for aid-
ing the immigration, economic
and social adjustment and Am-
ericanization of the newcomers.
Consolidation of the two na-
tional sendees has received ap-
proval of the National Counc'l
of Jewish Women through a re-
ferendum of its 200 local Sections
throughout the country. It has
been approved by the Executive
Committee of the National Refu-
gee Service, and will be submit-
ted to the Board of Directors of
!
For A Jewish State In Palestine
VOTE THE ZOA SLATE
In the Elections Sunday, June 16
Every Jewish man and woman who believes that Palestine
shoald be a Jewish Commonwealth and who wants to do
something more than Jast wish for it—has that opportunity
now!
The first post-war World Zionist Congress, which is des-
tined to shape the future of Jewish Palestine, convenes this
summer in Jerusalem.
If you want to have a voice in this Congress, and if you
want your voice to register more effectively—
Vote for the ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
(ZOA) slate ef delegates.
The Zionist Organisation of America (ZOA) asks your
vote because:
1. The ZOA is the foremost Zionist organization in this
country. Its leaders have militantly represented Ameri-
can Zionism to the world and have consistently cham-
pioned the maximal Zionist program.
2. Your vote upholds the hands of the leaders of the Zion-
ist movement in America at the World Zionist Congress.
Your vote of confidence is needed to strengthen the in-
fluence of American Zionist leadership in the councils
of the world.
3. The ZOA has waged a powerful and successful cam-
paign to win American public opinion for Zionism.
Give your vote to the leadership whch has so ably rep-
resented the movement these many years.
4. The ZOA has one unswerving objective—the establish-
ment of a free and democratic Jewish Commonwealth.
It is equipped in its numbers, its leadership and its pro-
gram to lead the Zionist movement to victory.
5. The ZOA stands above parties and it is the only body
which can unite the movement outwardly and inwardly
for the best interest of oar common cause.
6. ZOA has given its unstinted support to every measure
and agency designed to alleviate and protect the status
of Jewish labor in Palatine.
7. The United States with 5,000,000 Jews is the largest
Jewish community in the world. As such, it should as-
sume its rightful place of leadership in the formulation
of policies and decisions of the World Zionist Congress.
8. The Zionist Organization of America is the largest Zion-
ist body in this country, and is supported by the over-
whelming majority of enrolled Zionists. Its membership,
including that of its youth groups, has grown from
25,000 to 200,000 in the past seven years.
9. General Zionists through the ZOA have shouldered the
major portion of the hind-raising program for the de-
velopment of Palestine during the past 45 years. They
have carried the major harden of the movement in
general.
10. Help to bring 100,000 Jews into Palestine. Above all,
help in the attainment of the ultimate objective-—a
Jewish Commonwealth—the only solution to the prob-
lem of Jewish homelessness.
GO TO THE POLLS—BRING EVERY ADULT
MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY—MAN AND
WOMAN—WITH YOU.
Vote the ZOA Slate for a
Jewish State!
ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
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that agency at a meeting to be
held in New York City on Jure
flth.
An immediate major task of
the consolidated agency will be
to furnish complete assistance to
immigrants coming to this coun-
try under President Truman’s
directive. The first contingent of
these immigrants is now aboard
the SS “Marine Flasher," en
route to New York from Bremer-
haven. NRS and NCJW are al-
ready working in dose coopera-
tion in providing services to
these newcomers.
“The President’s directive,
speeding immigration of displac-
ed persons from Europe under
existing quota laws, has reaffirm-
ed the great American tradition
of asylum to the oppressed,”
Mrs. Welt and Mr. Rosenberg
said. “However, as he indicated
in the directive, its implementa-
tion depends largely on the work
of private welfare agencies in
assuring that the immigrants will
speedily become self-supporting
and contributing members of the
American community.”
The consolidation was motiva-
ted by the desire of both NCJW
and NRS to contribute toward
elimination of duplicating wel-
fare services in the best inter-
ests of the American public and
the immigrants .
The combined agency will con-
tinue the close cooperation with
other sectarian and non-sectarian
agencies for assistance to immi-
grants, which has been main-
tained by NRS and NCJW. In
conformity with existing cooper-
ative policies, many services of
the consolidated agency will con-
tinue to be available to clients of
all faiths.
Funds for the support of a com-
bined program in 1946 would be
provided by the $100,000,000 Un-
ited Jewish Appeal campaign, in
which NRS is a constituent agen-
cy. The NCJW will, of course,
continue to enlist the support of
local welfare funds for its other
national programs -
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MENUHIN DONATES
CONCERT FEE FOR
ROMANIAN MUSIC
SCHOLARSHIP
Bucharest (JPS) — Yehudi
Menuhin, American violinist,
contributed his entire fee for
a concert here, amounting to
20,000,000 lei (1,273), to the
Bucharest Philharmonic Society
to finance a scholarship for
young musicians. His donation
was featured prominently by
the Romanian press and radio.
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and bigoted racialism or nationalism, but to the service of inter-
nationalism, and to the practices of the brotherhood of man.
I do not intend, time will not permit me, to read cither the
terms of reference or the recommendations. The papers have car-
ried them, the New York Times, May 1st issue, printed the re-
port in full, and if not now generally available in pamphlet form
to those interested they soon will be. Nor do I appear here in the
role of cither an apologist for or defender of the report. It needs
no apologist, no defender. Its sincerity, its wise, humane and justQ
handling of a most difficult and delicately poised problem (indeed
the most difficult since the one posed to Solomon of the two moth-
ers claiming the one child) is its own complete defense. The agreed
work of twelve good men and true, it embodies the wisdom of all,
the unwisdom of none of them. Let me make clear too that I do
not come to defend either myself or the committee, or to counter-
attack our attackers. My role here will be a completely objective
one to make you see the problem and its solution, as, believe it or
not, nay role as chairman was a completely objective one to see
and assist others on the committee to see the problem and to
them in its solution.
Reduced to its simplest terms, the problem was in three di-
mensions. The first dimension was: Did the western world, and
particularly the United States and Great Britain, have such an in-
terest and stake in the future of Palestine as to justify and support
the formation of a committee to inquire into it and make recom-
mendations for its solution?
The second dimension was: The relation to and impact on
the problem of Palestine, of the war in Europe, and particularly
its aftermath of homelessness and uprooting.
The third dimension was: The determination and the
firm and dear declaration (1) of the relative rights and position
in Palestine, a land sacred to three faiths, of Jews, Moslems and
Christians, and (2) of the principles upon which the future rela-
tions of these three, especially of the Semitic kinsmen, Arabs and
Jews, could be so firmly and securely based that Arabs and Jews
could live together not merely peaceably but in full accord of spirit
and unity of effort in a land where both belong. If these princip-
les could be found, an era of great good will and accomplishment
could begin in which Jew and Arab could develop to the fullest
the peculiar genius and culture of which each is so jusdy proud,
and working together make even greater contributions to the world.
If these could be found, each would be freed from the haunting
fear which has bedeviled both, that the other would some day dom-
inate him. Gone would be the hateful fear of a recurrence of the
disasters which have already flowered from the efforts of the pol-
iticians on both sides to achieve domination. Gone forever would
be the dreadful fear that far more disastrous results would flow
should either political faction actually achieve the domination each
now aspires to.
The problem thus posed, let us consider here, as the commit-
tee in its deliberations and report did, one by one its three dimen-
sions. First, the interest and the stake of the western world in
Palestine and the position of the Committee.
While time will not permit an extended discussion, it is of
the first importance to an understanding of the problem as a whole
to understand what and where Palestine is and, as an essential part
of that understanding, to know that the name “Palestine” is a
name of comparatively recent origin, and that there is no ancient
geographical term that covers all the area now known as Palestine.
Indeed, until the period of Roman occupation the region we now
call Palestine was subdivided into small independent provinces,
kingdoms and tribal units different in extent at different times,
such as Philistia, Canaan, Judea, Israel, Bashan, etc. It was never
united under one collective designation as a state or nation. The use
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older than the Byzantine period. Philistia proper, the land of the
Philistines, a coastal people, themselves Semitic or Semitized, let me
remind you, included only the maritime plain. This is a strip of
land of remarkable fertility and of varying widths running along
the Mediterranean coast from Lebanon,to Egypt. Squeezed by the
hill country to narrow widths on the average about four or five
miles it narrows at one point to barely 200 yards, and expands at
Ascalon to about 20 miles.
The hill country of Judea was and is the nucleus of Palestine
as we know it; and in that rough, rugged and spiney land it was
natural for the Psalmist to say, “I lift up mine eyes to the hills from
whence cometh my help,” for it was the hill lands that David’s
warriors held, and it was from the hills that they swept down up-
on the coastal plain to smite Philistia and the Philistines.
In addition to remembering that Palestine is a comparatively
modern, is indeed the Roman, name for the land we are discussing,
it is greatly important to remember too that, from the standpoint
of world history, the Palestine of the Mandate never had an inde-
pendent place as a state or nation among the nations of the world.
Geographically and historically it was a part of the Syriac plateau
which for centuries under the name of Syria constituted the north-
ern and western end of the Arabian peninsula, and such govern-
ment as it had from time to time was tribal or provincial.
Part of the ancient plateau whose characteristic feature is that
it is both mountainous and greatly faulted and deeply fractured,
northern Palestine falls 12,000 feet from the great height of Her-
man, 9383 feet, past Lebanon, 6070 feet, and mountains of lesser
heights to and through the Jordan valley depression which at the
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