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American Non-zionists to Organize for Agency

January 3, 1935
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A non-Zionist body to support the Jewish Agency for Palestine will be established in the United States as a result of the sessions of the administrative committee of the Jewish Agency which concluded yesterday.

Hope for the creation of such a body was expressed yesterday by Neville Laski in an address concluding the first meeting in this country of the committee.

Resolutions calling on the Jews of the world to intensify their effort for the speedy upbuilding of a Jewish national home in Palestine, and approving the stand taken by the Jewish Agency Executive on the two problems of the proposed legislative council for Palestine and Jewish immigration, were unanimously adopted at the concluding session after several hours of discussion.

Although the official communique issued after the conclusion of the executive session made no direct reference to creation of a non-Zionist organization to support the Jewish Agency in this country, the statement of Mr. Laski made public was taken to indicate that this had been the decision of the administrative committee.

Organization of the non-Zionist constituency of the Jewish Agency, it has long been pointed

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