Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1937-08-01 · 8.1937 · p. Seite 5

acceptance of this amount in any year and to hold a campaign of its own. The Council for German Jewry also grants contributions for specific purposes, and of the aggregate LP.730,000 so far collected, about LP.92,000 has been allocated to the Jewish National Fund for the purchase of land for German-Jewish colonisation in Palestine. 4. The British members of the Council are : Viscount Samuel, Chairman of the entire Council and the British section; Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Mr. Simon Marks, Lord Bearstead and Sir Osmond d'Avigdor Goldsmid (President of the I.C.A.). The members of the American section of the Council, which was established after prolonged negotiations, are : Mr. Felix Warburg (Chairman); Dr. Stephen S. Wise and Mr. Morris Rothenberg (representing the United Palestine Appeal); Mr. Paul Baerwald and Mr. Charles L. Liebman (representing the Joint Disribution Committee) . Mr. F. Warburg's proxy in London is Mr. James de Rothschild. Other Zionist deputies are : Mr. Israel Goldstein and Mr. Nathan Straus (New York); Professor S. Brodetsky, Prof. L. B. Namier, Rev. M. L. Perlzweig, Mr. Robert B. Solomon (London), of whom the latter two are proxies in London of Dr. Stephan S. Wise and Mr. M. Rothenberg. Mr. Harry Sacher succeeded Prof. L. B. Namier, who resigned in March, 1937. Dr. Rosenbliith takes part in all meetings of the Council as representative of the Central Bureau. 5. The Council for German Jewry has just completed its first year of activity, during which it was instrumental in assisting towards the co-operation of various Jewish organisations contributing to funds on behalf of German Jewry, and, to some extent it succeeded in this object. The general budget for 1937 of the Fund for German Jewry was adopted unanimously at a full meeting of the Council which met in London in March, under the chairmanship of Viscount (then Sir Herbert) Samuel, and with the attendance of Mr. Felix Warburg. The budget decided upon for 1937, in comparison with the budget for 1936, was as follows :