Dean Alfange, noted leader of the American Liberal Party, today announced his resignation as co-chairman of the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, giving as his reason lack of sympathy for its political affiliations.
“While I fully sympathize with the humanitarian purposes of the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, I do not approve of its political affiliations,” the statement said. “Though I am a Christian, I have been a life-long Zionist and a firm believer in the political aims of Zionism as exemplified by the World Zionist movement headed by Dr. Chain Weizmann.
“I believe that the most effective way of eradicating anti-Semitism is by creating an independent Jewish state in Palestine through which the Jewish people can express themselves on equal terms with the other peoples of the world.
“Lack of statehood implies lack of equality which, in turn, leads to worldwide discrimination. Zionism is therefore the means of attacking anti-Semitism at its source and should be supported by all liberal thinking citizens, irrespective of their faith.”
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