Rep. Emanual Celler, New York Democrat, today criticized the Crimea Conference for “lightly shunting aside the status of Palestine.”
“Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin have announced the proposed solutions of many knotty problems involving frontiers, boundaries, bases and the rehabilitation of the liberated, but they could not find it in their hearts and minds to spend a few of these precious moments in an attempt to ease the age-old problems of the persecuted Jews of Europe,” he said.
Celler declared that President Roosevelt’s account of his meeting with king Ibn Saud of Saudi-Arabia, in which the President said he learned more about the Jewish and Moslem problems than in the exchange of a dozen letters, was “a queer obsorvation and needs explaining.”
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