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5690 In Review
By HARRY SCHNEIDERMAN,
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Editor, of the American Jewish Year Bookt and assistant secretary the
American Jewish Committee
The period covered by this review is from July 1,1929 to June 30, ;ajo. Itis based chiefly on the dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency; the Jewish and general press and reports of many organizations hare also been used' as source material.
The attention of the Jews of the United States was focussed\ luring the past year, as tn no other since the Peace Conference, upn), the situation of their brethren in foreign landsy especially Palestine, R(i{ia Poland and Roumania.
The sad news which began coming from Palestine about August 22, 1929, appeared the more tragic because it came so closet on the heels of the results of the first meeting at Zurich, Switzerland, of the Council of the Jewish Agency, constituted along lines agreed ufon between the World Zionist organization and leading non-Zionists in several wc>ttm countries, chiefly the United States. The reports of widespread uprisings on the part of Arabs, involving the killing and maiming of many Jews, aroused intense grief and indignation; the conviction was almost universally held that the out/breaks would not have occurred but for the negligence of The British administration in Palestine; and this negligence, many believed, was a result of the antipathy for, or, at best, the lack of syrnpathx of the British officials in Palestine ivith, the efforts of Jews to establish a homeland in that country. These were the sentiments which animated a group of Jews of New York City, who, on August 26th, the fourth day of the uprisings, organized a mourning procession which marched to the British Consulate General, where a set of protest resolutions was deposited.
AMERICAN REACTION TO PALESTINE EVENTS
On the same day, the Administrative Committee of the Zionist Organization of America determined to establish a Palestine Emergency Fund for the relief of sufferers from the outbreaks, under the chairmanship of David A. Brown, and the Union of Orthodox Rabbis appointed September 4th (Yom Kippur Katon) as a day of fast and prayer, and dispatched a resolution to President Hoover requesting him "in the name of God and humanity, to use his good offices to check the Arab riots and bring salvation to the needy".
Oil the following day, a delegation representing the Zionist Organization of America, Hadassah, the American Jewish Congress, the Independent Order Brith Abraham and other Jewish bodies waited upon the Honorable Henry L. Stim-son, Secretary of State, and submitted to him a memorandum on the Arab uprisings,- concluding with an expression of confidence that the United States Government would make every possible effort to bring about an immediate cessation of the massacres.
The State Department had been communicated with also by the American Jewish Committee,- the Secretary of which had sent to the Department a telegram and a confirmatory letter in which the United States Government was requested to take adequate steps in conjunction with the British Gov-
ernment for the protection of the life and property of American citizens and that in order to prevent possible spread of anti-Jewish excesses in other countries where Jews and Moslems lived, our gov-ernment bring to the attention of the governments of such countries the desirability of taking necessary precautionary measures. In response to these messages, the State Department informed the Committee that it had early taken appropriate steps through the Consul General at Jerusalem and through the embassy at London to protect the lives and property of American citizen- in the disturbed area, and that int nn-ation received with regard to o-ndi-
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