The American Zionist Council, which represents all Zionist groups in the United States, today announced that it will continue its fight for the withdrawal of the White Paper. It emphasized that the White Paper policy “remains essentially unchanged,” despite last week’s announcement by British Colonial Secretary Oliver Stanley that immigration certificates for Palestine available under the White Paper quota and unused owing to war conditions will be valid after March 31, 1944.
“It is not conceivable that the White Paper should represent the last word of British statesmanship on the future of Palestine,” the Council said. “The achievements of the Jews in Palestine as well as the terrible, unparalled sufferings of the Jews of Europe have made it indubitably clear that the problem of Jewish homelessness can be solved only by the reestablishment of a Jewish Commonwealth in the land with which the Jews have always been historically associated. We renew our appeal and we believe that we shall not appeal in vain to the conscience of the British people and of all the democratic peoples.”
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