Immediate government action to aid the Jews in Nazi-held countries was demanded today in a three-point program advanced at the annual meeting of the Council of Christians and Jews here.
A resolution adopted unanimously by the meeting hailed the recent statement in Parliament by Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee to the effect that the British Government was conferring with other of the United Nations on means of helping the Jewish refugees and also the disclosure by Colonial Minister Oliver Stanley that Britain had induced Bulgaria to allow the emigration of 4,000 Jewish children and 500 adults to Palestine. At the same time it demanded that the British Government take the following steps:
1 – Grant temporary asylum to refugees in British territories, including Palestine, and induce the other United Nations to do likewise in their territory.
2 – Arrange with other Allied nations to assure financial assistance and food to neutrals admitting refugees, and pledge that permanent haven elsewhere will be found for them after the war.
3 – Use all means to acquaint the governments of the Axis countries and their satellites of post-war reprisals for atrocities against Jews and other civilians.
The Manchester Guardian in an editorial today demands “more energetic” action by the Government to save the Jews in Nazi Europe. It expresses regret over Capt. Stanley’s announcement that Jewish immigration into Palestine will be kept within the limits of the White Paper of 1939. “If 30,000 or 50,000 should succeed in escaping and want to go to Palestine, are the gates to be shut to them;” the Guardian asks.
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