American Zionist Council Assails Egypt’s Protest to U.S.

The American Zionist Emergency Council today relaxed Premier Nahas Pasha of Egypt for his protest against speeches made in the Congress of the United States favoring the recognition of Palestine as a Jewish Commonwealth and the unrestricted settlement of Jews there. In a formal statement, the Council declared:

“At the time that the German General Rommel was knocking at the gates of Cairo and Alexandria and threatening to bottle up Suez, the life-line of the British Empire, the Jews in Palestine were giving their lives as combat troops. Men, women and children, and the aged, were working in factories to supply the British Eighth Army. At that time we heard of no protest either from Cairo or from any Egyptian government official over the invasion of Egyptian soil by Rommel. The Egyptian Prime Minister would do better to concern himself with the contribution which Egypt might make even now to the war effort of the United Nations.”