An appeal to President Truman and Secretary of State George Marshall to protest the “British violation of international law in assaulting the Haganah ship Exodus 1947 on the high seas” was endorsed last night at a mass meeting here called by Americans for Haganah, Inc.
A resolution approved by the meeting also urged the United States to demand redress for the death of William Bernstein, American crew member who was killed by the British aboard the Exodus, and the immediate release of three other American crew members who are being held by the British on charges of “aiding illegal immigration.” The resolution requested that Britain be required to “fulfill her international obligations by returning the Exodus refugees to their rightful home in Palestine and by opening the doors of Palestine to free Jewish immigration.”
Speakers at the meeting included Louis Lipsky, chairman of the executive committee of the American Jewish Conference; John Stanley Grauel, former Methodist Minister who was in the crew of the Exodus when it was attacked by British warships; Ben-Zion Elan, former member of the Jewish Brigade; and Helen Waren, actress and lecturer, who recently returned from Palestine.
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