Alfred Coste-Floret and Rene Capitant, delegates from the French League for a Free Palestine, told a press conference here today that the French league considers it “opportune and important” to submit the question of settlement of the Palestine question to the United Nations.
French public opinion, they said, considers that the Jews in Europs have a right to go to Palestine and that such immigration would benefit not only the refugees but the whole Middle East.
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