The Jewish Agency has no reason to believe that the fate of Palestine will be decided at the Security Conference of the United Nations which opens at San Francisco at the end of this month, Dr. Bernard Joseph, the Agency’s legal adviser, declared at a press conference today.
Although Dr. Chaim Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion may arrive in the United States shortly before the opening of the San Francisco Conference, it is not clear yet whether there will be any necessity for them to go to San Francisco, Dr. Joseph said. Despite this, the Jewish Agency will send several observers to San Francisco, who will, however, in no way officially represent the Agency, he added.
Dr. Joseph took issue with Lord Devonshire’s statement in the House of Lords in which the Under-Secretary of the Colonial Office declared that the British Government has information that Jews from Europe do not want to go to Palestine. “This allegation,” Dr. Joseph stated, “is absolutely untrue. We are being deluged by hundreds of thousands of demands for immigration certificates.” He revealed that at present there are only 3,500 immigration certificates remaining under the terms of the White Paper, adding that Palestine can absorb “at least 100,000 new immigrants immediately.”
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