The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will resume discussion on the Palestine Resolution tomorrow following a split among the members of the committee as a result of a proposal offered late Friday afternoon to amend the resolution.
The amendment, suggested by Senator Arthur H. Vandenburg of Michigan, urged that the phrase “free and democratic Jewish Commonwealth” in the resolution should be replaced by the phrase “eventual home for the Jewish people.” This amendment was approved at the closed meeting of the Foreign Relations Committee by a one-vote margin, but strong opposition from Senator Robert Wagner of New York resulted in a decision to continue the discussion on Monday.
Senator Wagner, who is a co-sponsor of the resolution, indicated he would lose all interest in the bill in its altered form. The bill, in its original form, provides that the United States “use its good offices and take appropriate measures to the end that the doors of Palestine be opened to free entry of Jews” and “that there be full opportunity for colonization so that the Jewish people may ultimately reconstitute Palestine as a free and democratic Jewish Palestine.” In supporting Sen. Vandenberg’s proposal that the words “free and democratic Jewish Palestine” be changed to read “eventual home for the Jewish people,” members of the committee argued that the major purpose was to permit free Jewish immigration and allow Jewish colonization.
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