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(iii) that the Jewish Agency be vested with the control of immigration into Palestine, and with the necessary authority for the upbuilding of the country.

(b) Rejection of the White Paper of May, 1939.

(c) Resistance (constructive) to the White Paper policy. (d) Rejection of the Morrison-Grady federal plan.

(e) To explore the possibility of a Jewish-Arab understanding. (f) Against terrorism.

(g) Opposition to any new trusteeship over Palestine, superseding the present Mandate, by which the establishment of the Jewish State would be prevented or postponed.

The Jewish political parties in Palestine, however, differ in their approach to the Zionist principle and in their outlook on social and economic matters. The parties are as follows :

A. I Labour Parties.

MAPAI (Palestine Labour Party). (p. 956)

(§ 33)

This is the most influential political party among the Jews of Palestine and, perhaps, in the Zionist Movement. It is an integral part of the world Zionist-socialist movement, the Union of Zionist Workers (Ihud Olami Poalei Zion) and is the leading group in the General Federation of Jewish Labour in Palestine (Histadruth , see under Section 3 of Chapter XVII) which it virtually controls. It is represented on the Executive of the Jewish Agency by seven out of the nineteen Zionist members; its representatives include the Chairman of the Executive (Mr. D. Ben-Gurion), the Treasurer (Mr. E. Kaplan), the head of the Political Department (Mr. M. Shertok) and the bead of the Organisational Department (Mr. E. Dobkin). Mr. D. Remez, Chairman of the Va'ad Leumi (the General Council of the Elected Assembly) is also i" member. The party polled 68,939 votes, or 35% of the total, at the Palestine elections to the 22nd Zionist Congress and is a staunch supporter of the policy laid down in the resolutions of that body. The party is one of the principal motive powers behind the establishment of collective agricultural settlements based on self-labour and cooperation. Its political complexion is socialist and it is affiliated to the Second International. Its principal party organ is the weekly "Hapoel Hatzair" while the Histadruth daily "Davar" also serves to express the party's views.

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