Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 11

Socialist Party Hitachduth, as well as other conferences and meetings in Warsaw and Cracow. He visited Vienna in connection with the Shekel campaign, and also paid visits to Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow, to address meetings. 4. The Palestine Executive. The members of the Executive in Palestine form part of the Executive of the Jewish Agency and have throughout taken an active share in its work as directors of departments, viz..: Mr. Shertok and Mr. Ben-Gurion, Political Department; Mr. Gruenbaum, Immigration and Labour Department; Mr. Kaplan, Finance Department; and Dr. Ruppin, Central Bureau for the Settlement of German Jews in Palestine. Mr. Ben-Gurion has paid visits to Poland, London, and the United States; Mr. Gruenbaum has visited Poland, Rumania and other countries in connection with Palestine immigration matters; and Mr. Kaplan, besides visiting Eastern Europe, spent some time in London in connection with the loan secured by the Jewish Agency and the Keren Hayesod. B.—ORGANISATION ACTIVITIES. INTRODUCTION. The work of the Organisation Department, apart from the transaction of current affairs, has been devoted to the internal consolidation of the Organisation and the strengthening of its position in regard to the outer world. Throughout the whole period of this Report our energies have unfortunately had to be spent in a very large measure upon the combating of attacks made by various sections of the opposition against the solidarity, integrity and authority of the World Zionist Organisation. In the first year after the Congress it was particularly the passive and even active resistance exercised by certain sections of our Organisation against our national Funds, which called for a great deal of activity on the part of the Executive and especially of the Organisation Department. An attempt was made to undermine the whole democratic character of our Organisation by denying the right of the majority to elect the Executive of the movement, and repudiating the duty of the minority to subordinate themselves to the decisions of Congress. Fortunately, it can now be said that this struggle has actually closed with an increase in the revenue of our Funds and likewise with the victory of the democratic idea in Zionism. The Executive has shown, through the negotiations which it conducted with the individual Zionist parties in the second year of this Report, that whilst maintaining the principles of democracy, it is resolved to do everything it can to bring about a mutual understanding between the parties and also to effect the pacification of the movement in . a manner that would meet the wishes of the II