A petition signed by 2,000 American university professors was submitted today to President Roosevelt urging him to use the influence of his high office “to the end that the doors of Palestine shall be opened for free entry of Jews into that country, and that there shall be full opportunity for colonization, so that the Jewish people may ultimately reconstitute Palestine as a free and democratic Jewish Commonwealth.”
Professors from more than 250 colleges in 45 states, including more than 150 university presidents, are among the signers. The petition stresses “the gigantic catastrophe that has re-emphasized the national homelessness of the Jews and their need for a land to which they may come as of right and not on tolerance.” The document quotes Mr. Churchill’s statement that the British White Paper of 1939, threatening the doom of the Jewish National Home, is “a plain breach of a solemn obligation,” and demands that the United States Government should intercede “of legal right no less than of moral obligation.”
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