“An unparalleled wave of immigration into the Holy lend this summer, a wave that will surge onto the beaches of Eretz with or without the will or concent of the British Government,” was predicted tonight by Moshe ##hapiro, director of the Immigration Department of the Jewish Agency.Addressing a dinner commemorating the 35th anniversary of the Mizrachi Organization of America, Mr. Shapiro, who arrived here this week by air from Palestine, said that “in the name of the Yishuv and with the full authority of my position, I assert that no restrictions, no matter how severe; no obstacles, no matter how maliciously contrived, will stop the influx of our brothers into the Holy Land.” He added that ## regardless of what the United Nations will decide… a Jewish state will be built.”
Other speakers included Leon Gellman, national president of Mizrachi; Rabbi Max Kirshblum, executive vice-president, and Gedaliah Bublick, honorary president. Mr. Bublick, who returned from Palestine last month, called on the Jewish spokesmen who will appear before the U.N. inquiry commission to demand a “whole undivided Palestine within the historic boundaries of the Holy Land, and to oppose any partition scheme.” Messages of support were received from Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Mayor William O’Dwyer and Senators Robert F. Wagner and Irving M. Ives.
The 1,000 persons attending the dinner pledged that they would raise $500,000 this year for the Mizrachi Education and Expansion Fund, to finance the activities of its nation-wide religious school system and for work in Palestine and Europe.
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