Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1937-08-01 · 8.1937 · p. Seite 4

United Palestine Appeal, the proceeds of which were shared equally by the Keren Hayesod and the Keren Kayemeth. The Executive of the Jewish Agency and the Head Office of the Keren Hayesod decided upon a contribution of LP.50,000 from the United Palestine Appeal to the Central Bureau for 1936, and of the same amount in 1937. The two Founds shared equally in this contribution, the condition being made that the Jewish National Fund share should be spent in accordance with its regulations. 3. When the position of German Jewry grew more grave in the autumn of 1935, owing to the Nuremberg laws, leaders of Anglo- Jewry, at the initiative of Mr. Simon Marks, undertook to hold a further large-scale campaign intended to co-ordinate the various relief drives held by Jewish communities in different countries into a joint effort with a centralised purpose, namely, the collection of LP.3,500,000, particularly in England and America. This amount was regarded as sufficient to meet the needs arising out of a Four-Year Plan. A third of the sum was to be raised in Europe and the remaining twothirds in America. The object of the plan was to enable at least 100,000 Jews to emigrate over four years from Germany to other countries on the assumption that at least one-half of such emigrants would need assistance, especially in vocational training, fares, costs of entering new countries and loans to cover their acclimatization in their new homes. A deputation of Anglo-Jewry, consisting of Viscount (then Sir Herbert) Samuel, Lord Bearstead and Mr. Simon Marks, proceeded to America in January, 1936, in order to assure the support of American Jewry in this plan. When the delegation returned from the United States, the new body commenced operations under the title of "Council for German Jewry" and appealed to the Jewish community in Great Britain to contribute LP. 1,000,000. The amount of LP.730,000 has hitherto been raised and the campaign is still proceeding. In order to obviate the holding of two special campaigns simultaneously, it was agreed with the Keren Hayesod in England that it should receive the annual amount of LP.28,000 during the period from 1936 to 1939, in lieu of its normal budget. But the right was given to the Keren Hayesod to terminate at its discretion the