Sessions of the South Central Conference on Palestine opened here today at a meeting in Pilgrim Congregational Church with two prominent ministers and a soil conservation expert calling for the re-opening of Palestine to Jewish immigration and the establishment there of a free and democratic Jewish commonwealth.
The speakers were Dr. Walter Clay Lowdermilk, Chief of Soil Conservation in the U. S. Department of Agriculture, the Rev. Dr. Wendell Phillips, Rector of Christ Church, Rye, N. Y., and the Rev. Dr. Henry A. Atkinson, Chairman of the World Peace Union, Dr. Atkinson, who is Chairman of the Christian Council on Palestine, an organization of about 3,000 Christian ministers and religious educators throughout the United States, also called for the support of churchmen everywhere for the program of the American Christian Council on Palestine, under whose auspices the series of meetings is now being held in St. Louis. Speaking at a luncheon session, Dr. James G. McDonald, Chairman of the President’s Advisory Committee on National Refuge, said that Palestine offers the primary hope for solution of the refugee problem.
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