The Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs has taken steps here to organize a committee of prominent Americans in support of Jewish aspirations in Palestine, it was disclosed today. The Emergency Committee has designated Emanuel Neumann to do this work and he has been in contact with statesmen, legislators, clergymen, educators and writers, some of whom have already expressed willingness to serve on such a body.
The committee would represent a revival on a wider scale of the American Palestine Committee set up in 1932, with the late Vice-President Charles S. Curtis as chairman, “for the furtherance of the restoration of Palestine as the Jewish national homeland and the dissemination of accurate information as to the progress of the upbuilding work in the Holy Land.” The committee at that time included Cabinet members, Governors, Congressmen and others.
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