Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden announced in Commons today that the British Government hopes that the forthcoming Anglo-American parley in Ottawa to study means of saving Jewish and other persecuted persons in Nazi Europe would be wide in scope. He declared that the Government is already discussing the selection of the British representatives to the Ottawa conference.
Asked whether it would not be more practical to hold the conference in London rather than in Ottawa, Eden replied that the British Government “is ready to meet the representatives of the United States at any place.” He emphasized that “the massacres of Jews in Poland are continuing.”
Captain Oliver Stanley, Colonial Secretary, speaking in Commons today, indicated that the British Government does not intend to admit into Palestine more than the approximately 30,000 Jews still entitled to enter under the terms of the White Paper, which provides for the halting of Jewish immigration to Palestine after March, 1944. Some of the members declared such limited immigration is not adequate to cope with the Jewish tragedy in Europe.
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