Protests against the Colonial Office and the Palestine Administration for their failure to admit the Strume refugees continued here today as Jewish organizations, the British press and South African Zionist groups added their voices to the demand for a change in Britain’s policy toward Jewish immigration into Palestine.
A resolution declaring that by its attitude in the Strume case “the Palestine administration has departed from the honored British tradition of offering sanctuary to those fleeing from political and religious persecution” was adopted today at a moment “to take steps to make impossible” a repetition of such a disaster.
The New Statesman and Nation, leading British weekly, in an editorial on the Strume sinking, demands an inquiry into the tragedy. It declares that the loss of lives lies on the threshold of the British authorities in Jerusalem and the Colonial Office.
The South African Zionist Federation in Johannesburg cabled the Colonial Secretary protesting the Palestine administration’s part in the Strume catastrophe, it was learned here today.
Revision of official British policy toward the Jews in Palestine is also demanded in an editorial in the Manchester Guardian. Expressing the hope that appointment of Viscount Cranborne as head of the Colonial Ministry will bring a new approach to Palestine affairs, the Guardian writes: “No community would fight Hitler with more loyalty to the Allies than the Jews.”
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