A statement of policy advocating a Jewish majority in Palestine and a voluntary transfer of Arabs to neighboring countries, as well as the extension of the present boundaries of Palestine through negotiations with Syria, Transjordan and Egypt, was adopted here today by the convention of the British Labor Party.
This policy will be the official stand of the Labor Party on the Palestine issue. All other resolutions with regard to Palestine which were submitted to the convention have been shelved by the adoption of today’s statement. No further debate on Palestine will take place at the convention.
The statement of policy was adopted following a report of the executive committee presented by Prof. Harold Laski. The report contained a section on Palestine declaring that there is no meaning to the Jewish National Home unless Jews are allowed to enter Palestine in such numbers as to become the majority there.
“There was a strong case for this before the outbreak of the war, and there is an irresistible case now after the unspeakable atrocities of the cold and calculated Nazi plan to kill all Jews in Europe,” the report said. It urged the British Labor Party to seek the support of the American and Russian governments for the policy on Palestine recommended by the executive.
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