Zionist Leaders Expect Further Clarification from State Department on Palestine

Further clarification by the State Department of its attitude towards the Palestine Resolution, action on which was deferred yesterday by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is expected by Zionist leaders, it was announced here today by the Zionist Emergency Council which represents all major Zionist groups in this country.

The announcement said that the Council has in the meantime “reserved comment on the statement issued by the State Department.” The Council’s announcement recalls the statement on Palestine issued by President Roosevelt on Oct. 15th. Also that the 1944 platforms of both the Republican and Democratic parties included planks endorsing the re-establishment of Palestine as a free and democratic Jewish Commonwealth. “On November 30, 1944,” the Council also pointed out, “the House Foreign Affairs Committee favorably reported to the House of Representatives a resolution identical with the one which has now been deferred in the Senate.”