Any post-war refugee rehabilitation program will be doomed to failure unless the United States joins with Great Britain in furthering the development of the Jewish homeland in Palestine, it was declared in a resolution adopted today at a Palestine War Emergency Conference convened at the Plaza Hotel under the auspices of the Greater New York United Palestine Appeal.
Declaring that Palestine has been a foremost haven for refugees, the resolution called upon President Roosevelt to instruct the Inter-Governmental Committee on Refugees to explore the possibilities for future settlement in Palestine as the foundation for a large-scale colonization program for hundreds of thousands who will require rehabilitation when the war has come to an end.
In another resolution the United Palestine Appeal Conference, which was convened to consider the war problems confronting the 550,000 Jews in Palestine, expressed disappointment at the failure of the British Government “to call into being a specifically Jewish military force”, and addressed to the British Ambassador at Washington “an urgent request that as a matter of expediency in the prosecution of the war, as well as justice to the Jews as a people, the establishment of such a force be forthwith undertaken.” The resolution emphasized that “The Jews are entitled by virtue of their national status in Palestine, as well as by the fact that Hitler had declared war on the Jews as a people, to fight as an ally with Britain’s other allies in this struggle.”
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