The American Christian Palestine Committee, representing several thousand Christian church and lay leaders throughout the country, today charged that the State Department is failing to back President Truman’s policy calling for immediate entry of 100,000 displaced Jews into Palestine as recommended by the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry.
Closing a three-day conference, the Committee, of which Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York is honorary chairman, wired President Truman commendation of his stand but warned that the State Department’s “failure to insist” upon that policy” is causing widespread dissatisfaction.”
The conference, which was attended by more than 50 outstanding churchmen and civic leaders, called upon Secretary of State Byrnes “forcibly to present the American position to the British Government,” reminding him of the recent Congressional resolution supporting free Jewish entry into Palestine, and in cables to Prime Minister Attlee and British Ambassador Clark-Kerr warned that “the sacredness of Britain’s pledged word and the integrity of international agreements will be seriously shaken by further delay.”
The conference also unanimously adopted a resolution petitioning the President and the Congress to do “all in their power to secure the immediate realization” of the Anglo-American committee’s recommendations relating to entry of the 100,000, abandonment of the White Paper of 1939, and removal of barriers to free Jewish colonization and settlement in Palestine, and “to accept responsibility under the United Nations for their achievement.”
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