Christian leaders from 68 cities in 27 states today wired President Truman, Secretary of State Marshall and U.N. delegate Warren Austin to “take affirmative action to implement America’s publicly declared policy in favor of unrestricted Jewish immigration into Palestine.”
Resolution embodying this appeal and supporting the claims of the Jewish people to a democratic Jewish state in Palestine, was adopted by the delegates attending the third annual national seminar of the American Christian Palestine Committee at the Moraine Hotel in Highland Park, Illinois.
The telegrams further stated: “The failure of our government to fulfill its public commitments to the Jewish people would be a mockery of the solemn pledges we have made to them in our political party platforms and in a long line of Congressional resolutions and presidential declarations.
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