The British War Cabinet is considering the possibility of relaxing the immigration restrictions for Jews escaping from the Nazis, the London press reported today. The report adds that the Government will make the admission of the Jews to Britain conditional on the Allied and neutral countries doing the same, the object being to ensure aid for the Jews on the widest possible scale.
Commenting upon the fact that 600 Jewish children from Poland were compelled to leave last week for Palestine from Teheran by way of India, which adds hundreds of miles to their journey, because the Iraq Government refused them transit passage through Iraq despite American and British intervention, the British newspapers today demand that either Prime Minister Churchill or Foreign Secretary Eden make a statement in Parliament regarding Iraq’s conduct.
A full-page editorial in the influential liberal weekly, New Stateman, and Nation, entitled “Our Part in the Massacres.” today urges the admission into Palestine of 40,000 Jewish refugees under the provisions of the White Paper of 1939. “It is intolerable,” the editorial states, “that Palestine of all places should be closed, and by our own act.”
The Sunday Observer today asks why thousands of Italian settlers in Abyssinia have been allowed to return to Italy, without the British Government insisting on the release of at least a similar number of Jews in Axis heads It add “The appalling slaughter of Jewry continues and British official policy remains ineffective. The thing is to get these people out of the fires of Hell. Announcing future penalties for the stokers does not save lives now.”
A call to Jewish emigrees throughout the world to prepare for large-scale aid to help the Jews of Europe as soon as Hitler is defeated was voiced here today at a meeting of the Association of Jewish Refugees in Britain. The gathering was called to honor the memory of Heinrich Stahl, former head of the Berlin Jewish community, who died in the Terezin ghetto in Czechoslovakia where the Nazis have concentrated tens of thousands of Czech and German Jews.
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