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Zionists Make Pact With Hitler; Sokolow Opens World CongressNoted Linguist Sits As PresidentPRAGUE (Special) — Considered the greatest living Jewish linguist, Nahum Sokolow, 74-year-old veteran of the Zionist movement, this week presided over a fateful session of the World Zionist Congress here in the capitol of Czechoslovakia. At the outset of the Congress, he denied any hatred of Germany.“We are friends of Germany and admire her culture,” he said, “but when it is a question of our existence, we must lift our voice.”“Palestine must be made a land of fulfillment instead of a land of promise,” he said.Dr. Sokolow was destined to be a rabbi but abandoned a religious career after five years of study, to become a journalist. He attended the first Zionist Congress at Basle in 1897 and held virtually every office in the organization, reaching the presidency in 1931.Chaim Nachman Bialik, celebrated Hebrew poet, who is now in Vienna, was not able to attend the Congress. He recently underwent a kidney operation and has not recuperated sufficiently to take part in the Congress.For the first time, Germany, like Soviet Russia, was not represented at the World Zionist Congress. It was officially stated today that the ! German delegates would not par-5 ticipate in the Congress.PRESIDESNahum SokolowOust Hitler,Congress Asks(For Editorial, See Page 2)NEW YORK (WNS)—President Paul von Hindenburg of Germany today was called upon to exercise his prerogatives under the German constitution to dismiss Chancellor Hitler and save Germany’s JewsPlan Is Before Prague ParleyPRAGUE, Czechoslovakia — Dr. Arthur Ruppin, agricultural and colonization expert for the Jewish Agency for Palestine, will present to the eighteenth World Zionist Congress, now meeting here, an agreement approved by Germany providing that German Jews going to Palestine may take goods valued at 3,000,000 marks, (approximately $977,000), it was learned today.It was revealed that the agreement further provides for the establishment of a trustee corporation for the liquidation of Jewish holdings in Germany. All transactions will be through the Anglo-Palestine Bank until a special mixed commission can be set up.An unlimited period will be allowed to consummate the transactions and the German Government will renew the agreement when the three million marks sum is exhausted. The agreement provides that goods must be shipped only to Palestine and not to other countries.The Zionist Hitlerite pact is expected to prove a highlight of the Congress sessions, which drew 332 of the world’s leading Zionists into deliberations on Jewish problems. Another Congress highlight was the speech of Dr. Selig Brodetzky of Great Britain, who said the conven-(Continued on Page 8.)
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