Congressional Leaders Petition Rooseveit for Jewish Homeland in Palestine

A joint declaration, signed by 62 members of the United States Senate and 182 members of the House of Representatives pledging the continued support of the signatories to the “declared and traditional policy of the United States to favor the restoration of the Jewish National Home in Palestine” was submitted to President Roosevelt yesterday, it was announced here today by Senator Robert F. Wagner, of New York, A copy of the declaration was sent to Secretary of State Cordell Hull.

“Faced, as we are by the fact that the Nazi Government, in its Jewish policy, is attempting to exterminate a whole people, we declare that, when the war is over, it shall be the common purpose of civilized mankind to right this cruel wrong insofar as may lie in our power, and, above all, to enable large number of the survivors to reconstruct their lives in Palestine where the Jewish people may once more assume a position of dignity and equality among the peoples of the earth,” the declaration states.

Continuing, the document points out that “the reasons which, twenty-five years ago, led the American people and the Government of the United States to favor the cause of Jewish national restoration in Palestine are still valid today. In fact, the case for a Jewish homeland is overwhelmingly stronger and the need more urgent now than ever before.”