The British Government was urged today to take steps to find homes for the Jewish victims of the Nazis who are unable or unwilling to return to their former places of residence, in a resolution adopted at a meeting of the Anglo-Jewish Association. The resolution also asked that every endeavor be made to facilitate the early settlement in Palestine of those survivors desiring to make their homes there.”
Leonard Stein, president of the Association, charged that relief arrangements for the liberated but homeless Jews of Europe were unsatisfactory, and that even elementary requirements have not been met. The authorities in charge, he added, apparently have failed to grasp the immensity of the problem. “It is now evident,” he continued, that large numbers of these homeless people cannot go back. If not all, most of them desire to settle in Palestine. We hope that the British Government will not remain deaf to their prayers.”
Referring to negotiations with the Board of Deputies of British Jews in connection with the suggestion by Sir Robert Waley-Cohen, British Jewish communal leader; that a round-table of American and British Jewish organizations be held in London, Mr. Stein said that the Board has decided that there is no basis existing as yet for such a conference, and, therefore, it has arranged discussions with the American Jewish Conference and the World Jewish Congress.
The Association, consequently, is continuing its own consultations with the American Jewish Committee, Mr. Stein said, although it does not wish an Anglo-American line-up restricted to the Association and the Committee.
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