Eliezer Kaplan, treasurer of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, said today he had no details of reported Arab-Zionist conversations in Paris but declared: “The Jews in Palestine will not bargain for their own safety or peace at the expense of the hundreds of thousands of Jews who look to Palestine for a haven from oppression in Central and Eastern Europe.”
Sailing on the Normandie for Palestine after a six weeks’ stay here in the interests of the United Palestine Appeal, Mr. Kaplan said “the Jewish Agency is always prepared to meet with Arab leaders to discuss any proposals for Arab-Jewish peace and cooperation in Palestine.”
Declaring the Palestinian Jews looked to America for moral and political support in their “heroic struggle to keep the doors of Palestine open to the oppressed Jews in various parts of Europe,” he stressed the necessity of fulfilling the U.P.A. $4,500,000 quota.
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