Immediate admission of 10,000 homeless Jewish survivors from Europe to Palestine each month and simultaneous acceptance of regular monthly quotas of these people by the United States and other countries pending “permanent solution” of the problem of Palestine by the United Nations, was urged today by Senator Claude Pepper of Florida at the Minnesota-North Dakota Regional Conference of the United Jewish Appeal at the Nicollet Hotel which was attended by more than 400 Jewish leaders from both states.
Calling for a special session of the General Assembly of the United Nations to “deal with this critical challenge,” the Florida Senator called for “world leadership by the United States and Great Britain in giving sanctuary to the 250,000 displaced Jews in Europe, some of whom have been adrift for eight years or more.” Senator Pepper, who last year surveyed conditions in Central Europe and Palestine, described the plight of most of the 1,500,000 Jewish survivors on the continent as “more critical then at any time in the past.”
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