Ten thousand Jews and non-Jews at a meeting here adopted a resolution demanding the creation of a Jewish army, Jewish representation in the councils of the United Nations and a Jewish state in greater Palestine, as the only answer to the Nazi drive to exterminate the Jews of Europe. The meeting was attended by the United States and British ambassadors.
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