The Jewish Agency will go before the United Nations with demands for a Jewish state and unlimited immigration into Palestine, but will not close the door to other solutions “which would safeguard Jewish rights it was revealed today with the release of the resolutions adopted at the week-long Agency meeting which concluded yesterday.
The following resolutions in connection with action by the U.N. were adopted: 1. The Agency will submit to the U.N. and to its member states the program adopted by the last Zionist Congress. 2. It will insist on full implementation of the Mandate as long as the British remain the rulers of Palestine. 3. The Agency will be willing to explore other solutions safeguarding the rights of the Jewish people to free immigration and large-scale settlement, and ensuring the establishment of a Jewish state, without committing the movement in advance to their acceptance.
Declaring that the moment the Palestine problem is placed before the United Nations it no longer remains an issue between the Jews and Britain, but becomes international, the Agency statement said it will make every effort to defend the rights of the Jewish people recognized by the Mandate and insist on the establishment of a Palestine regime ensuring their implementation. It will seek to expose the Mandatory’s violation of its obligations and to obtain a solution which will place the fate of the Jewish people in their own hands.
Announcing the composition of the seven-man delegation which will represent the Zionists at the U.N.–the members of which were revealed yesterday the statement said that as a result of the destruction of the bulk of European Jewry and certain other developments, the Agency has decided to re-examine its struction and suggest certain alterations to the Zionist, Actions Committee, which will meet in May.
SAY ZIONISTS FACE CONTINUATION OF WHITE PAPER. NEW REPRESSIONS
Reviewing the general political situation, the statement said that the Zionist movement is confronted at present with the following three basic factory 1. The Mendatory Government has not swerved from its determination to maintain the White Paper, except for alight modification which do not charge its basic charactor. 2. Britain’s endeavor to submit the problem to the U.N. without altering the existing regime during the interim period; and 3. The growing harshuous of the repressive measures taken against the Jewish community.
In view of these circumstances, the Agency is determined to maintain ## compromising opposition to the White Paper regime, the statement added, streasing what this opposition is not directed against the British people, but only against their government’s present policy here. It denounced this policy as being the rep## for the unrest and “gratuitous suffering” of thousands of Jews, and pr## an unsessing fight for the entry of all displaced persons and other Jews the wish to come here and extansion of Jewish land holding.
Finally, referring to the Yishuv’s financial position, the statement says that the current budget is inadequate and additional funds must be obtained through increased capital investments and a stepped-up campaign for contributions.
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