The proposed creation of a British-American commission to deal with the problem of displaced Jews and their emigration to Palestine was opposed here today by a number of speakers at the International Christian Conference for Palestine.
Dr. Paul Hermann Voss, director of the American Christian Palestine Committee, addressing the delegates from 29 countries, asked whether six million dead Jews were not sufficient cause for early settlement of the Palestine problem. Other speakers, who called for the immediate abrogation of the White Paper, included Dr. Henry A. Atkinson, general secretary of the Church Peace Union, the Very Rev. Kenneth C. Evans of Canada. Rev. Frederick Brown Harris, chaplain of the U.S. Senate, Rabbi Philip Bernstein, and senator Eduardo Chibas of Cuba. Dr. Walter Clay Lowdermilk of the department of Agriculture was also among the principal speakers, advocating the opening of Palestine to large scale Jewish immigration.
At today’s session greetings were read from the President of Portugal, from the President of Colombia, from the President of Boliva and from the pro-Palestine committees of Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, Chile and other countries.
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