Ralph McGill, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, who has just returned from Germany and Palestine, in an address to the South Eastern States Conference of the United Jewish Appeal, told the 250 Jewish leaders present that what he saw in Palestine leads him to believe that the country “offered the real hope for the displaced Jews in Europe.” He strongly urged the Jews of the United States to insure the success of the $100,000,000 drive now being conducted by the U.J.A.
“I came back convinced purely on the basis of what I’ve seen,” he said, “that the objections to Jewish immigration into Palestine are ridiculous. Jews who are already there have done much to building up the country and those who go there in the future will do much more.”
“I found that Jews and Arabs are getting along in neighborly fashion,” Mr. McGill stated. “The Jews have learned a lot from the Arabs and the Arabs have learned a lot from the Jews. My feeling is that if there were no power politics between Great Britain and Russia there would be no Arab-Jewish trouble in Palestine.”
Mr. McGill reported that conditions in the displaced persons camps have improved considerably. “In those camps where conditions are bad, it’s caused almost entirely by the incompetence and the lack of sympathetic feeling on the part of those who are running the camp. But in other camps, where the management is better, conditions are as good as you could expect.”
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