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Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ...
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XIX (1935)
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8.1935
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1935-08-01
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Seite 10 (sequence 14)
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.Warsaw and other leading centres. Early in 1934 he succeeded in establishing a pro-Palestine Committee in Poland, which included a number of leading personalities in the political and intellectual world. He made a stay in Paris on his way back to London, and proceeded to Jerusalem in March, 1934, to attend a meeting of the General Council. From May to September he was engaged in South Africa, as the head of the Keren Hayesod campaign, in the course of which he addressed a very large number of meetings of all kinds in all parts of the sub-continent. On the completion of this campaign he returned to Palestine, where he remained a couple of months, and returned to London in the latter half of December, 1934. In February, 1935, he spoke at a public meeting in Paris in the interest of the Keren Hayesod, and in March and April he was in Palestine, where he attended the meeting of the General Council and addressed numerous gatherings, after which he returned to London. Professor Brodetsky visited Geneva in September, 1933, on the occasion of the meeting of the League Assembly, and from the end of December until about the middle of January, 1934, he went on a tour to Antwerp, Vienna, Lemberg and Cracow, in all of which he spoke at conferences or meetings. In March, 1934, he visited Palestine to attend the meeting of the General Council, and on the return journey spoke in Vienna. In August he attended a conference in Zurich of the Executive with some leading members of the non-Zionist section of the Jewish Agency. He then visited Warsaw, Riga, Cracow and Berlin, where he addressed several meetings, and in December went to Paris for a similar purpose. Professor Brodetsky spent a few weeks in March-April, 1935, in Palestine, in connection with the meeting of the General Council, and in June visited Geneva on the occasion of the meeting of the Mandates Commission. He has also addressed many meetings in London and the Provinces. Mr. Locker visited Jerusalem in March, 1934, to attend the meeting of the General Council. In June and July he visited the United States, where he attended and spoke at the Convention of the Zionist Organisation of America and at the Conference of the Poale Zion-Zeire Zion of America, and then went to Montreal, where he attended a meeting of the National Council of the Zionist Organisation of Canada. After returning to London he proceeded to Zurich in August to attend a conference between the Executive and some leading members of the non-Zionist section of the Jewish Agency, and subsequently was present at Dr. Jacobson's funeral in Geneva. In December, 1934, Mr. Locker went to New York to attend a meeting of the Administrative Committee of the Jewish Agency; and in March-April, 1935, he went to Jerusalem to take part in the General Council meeting. In June-July he visited Poland, where he represented the Executive at the Conference of the World Union of General Zionists in Cracow, and addressed public meetings in Warsaw. He also attended a meeting of the Council of the Polish Zionist Federation and of the Council of the Zionist 10

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