Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 66

III.—Citizenship. The General Council directs the attention of all sections of the Yishuv to the absolute necessity of acquiring Palestinian citizenship and instructs the Executive to take the necessary measures, in co-operation with the Vaad Leumi, to accelerate the naturalisation of all those who have hitherto neglected to discharge this duty. The General Council instructs the Executive to make every possible effort to obtain from the Government all requisite facilities for this purpose. IV. —Study Commission. The General Council appoints a Study Commission whose tasks shall comprise the study of the fundamental political questions and who shall submit the results of their work to the Political Commission of the next Congress. The Commission shall consist of two parts, one of which shall have its seat in London and the other in Jerusalem. The General Council proposes as members of this Commission for London, in addition to the Directors of the Political Department of the Jewish Agency, the following :—Messrs. Kurt Blumenfeld, Nahum Goldmann, M. Jarblum, J. Machover, Harry Sacher and I. Schwarzbart. For the Palestine section of the Commission the following are proposed in addition to the members of the Political Department of the Jewish Agency : Messrs. M. Ussischkin, I. Ben-Zvi, R. Lichtheim, B. Mossinson, H. Farbstein and S. Kaplansky. The Commission has the right to co-opt further members by a unanimous decision. V. —Petition Campaign. The General Council approves the attitude adopted by the Executive in its statement concerning the Revisionist petition campaign and calls upon all those who are engaged in this campaign to stop it completely. The General Council instructs the Executive to take all measures that are admissible in accordance with the constitution of the Organisation to enforce the decisions of the Congress regarding the maintenance of Zionist discipline. VI.—Jewish World Congress. In view of the position of the Jews in the Diaspora, which has been constantly becoming worse, and in view of the danger threatening large sections of the Jewish people that they may lose their civil rights as well as their rights as a national minority, the General Council recognises that it is necessary, in the struggle for the political rights and the economic existence of the Jewish people, to unite all the forces of the people and to establish therefor a legal representative body upon a democratic basis. In connection with this question, the General Council declares that the Zionist movement has from the very beginning affirmed the idea of the Jewish World Congress. The General Council takes note of the statement of the Chairman of the Comité des Délégations Juives that in the course of the forthcoming summer a World Conference will meet for the purpose of dealing with the questions connected with the struggle of the Jewries of the Diaspora for their political and economic rights and for the election of appropriate bodies to conduct the affairs relating thereto. The General Council recommends all sections of the Zionist movement to further the aforementioned efforts of the Comité des Délégations Juives and to participate therein. B. IMMIGRATION. I.—Statute of the Palestine Offices. A.—Functions of the Palestine Office. (1) The Palestine Office is an institution for the affairs of Palestine immigration. It exists in all countries in which the movement of migration makes its presence necessary; the Immigration Department of the Jewish 66