Urging President Truman to force Britain to withdraw Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee’s conditions on implementation of the Anglo-American committee’s recommendation for the immigration of 100,000 European Jews to Palestine, Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, said that the “democratic world cannot permit narrow national or imperial interests to stand in the way of simple justice to the Jewish people.” He spoke at the opening of the union’s 15th biennial convention yesterday.
Hillman described the Nazi concentration camps he had seen on his recent trip to Europe and called for complete destruction of the economic and social roots of Fascism, warning that another war, which might be brought on by a resurgence of Fascism, would mean the total destruction of all human life.
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