If Britain had carried out the terms of the Palestine Mandate “there would have been no reason to label Palestine a problem,” Rep. Emanuel Celler declared today at an emergency conference of the greater New York Mizrachi Council held at Far Rockaway.
Rep. Celler also asserted that if the United States acted as its traditional policy on Palestine dictated, the “bitter tragedy” that is being enacted in that country would end. The inauguration of a nation-wide drive for 50,000 Mizrachi members was announced at the meeting which also discussed other organizational and membership problems. Memorial services were held for William Bernstein, American crewman of the Exodus who was killed by a British naval party during boarding operations.
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