Branding the long-term recommendations of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry as “most unrealistic and unfortunate,” the executive committee of the American Jewish Conference asserted today that the Committee’s declaration against a Jewish state in Palestine will be rejected by the overwhelming majority of the Jews of the United States.
The Conference welcomed the report’s acceptance of President Truman’s “humanitarian recommendation calling for the immediate admission of 100,000 Jews into Palestine-” a proposal which will stand forever to his credit.” At the same time, the Conference declared that immigration proposals of the Committee would not aid the great majority of the remnants of European Jewry, in desperate need of a homeland, and that the long term recommendations struck “a sharp blow” at the Jewish people and the Jewish National Home, since they “brush aside” the international obligations to establish a Jewish state in Palestine.
“The report suggests that Jews be required, unlike any other people in the world, to give up their legitimate and natural aspirations to become a self-determining people,” the statement issued by the Conference said, It described the abrogation of the obnoxious features of the 1939 White Paper as a “posthumous victory” for the millions of Jewish dead in Europe, “many of whom might have been alive today in Palestine but for the White Paper.”
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