Dr. Francis E. McMahon of the University of Chicago, chairman of the Chicago Chapter of the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, and fourteen other officers have announced their resignation from the organization, it was announced here today.
Dr. McMahon has made public a telegram to Gabriel A. Wechsler of New York, national secretary of the Emergency Committee, in which the resigning officers said their action was occasioned by “increasing confusion between its (the Emergency Committee’s) activities and objectives and those of the American League for a Free Palestine.”
We are still resolved to work for the rescue of the Jewish people of Europe, but we prefer for the time being to take independent action,” the telegram said. Dr. McMahon pointed out that the signers of the telegram felt that the League is political in character, whereas the character of the Emergency Committee is primarily humanitarian.
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