The Jewish Agency for Palestine has established contact with the Soviet ambassadors in Washington, London and Ankara, it was reported here today by Moshe Shertok, head of the Agency’s political department, addressing a convention of the Histadruth, Palestine Federation of Labor, attended by about 400 delegates, representing 126,000 members.
Shertok revealed that he had made an unsuccessful effort to secure a permit to proceed to Russia. He emphasized that he considers it an urgent necessity to establish a permanent Jewish unit of a thousand men to guard the shores of Palestine; also the formation of a special home guard to defend Palestine. At the same time he urged a fight for a larger immigration schedule in order to rescue Jews from Nazi-occupied Europe and bring in Polish-Jewish refugees from Soviet Russia.
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