Lord Samuel, addressing the House of Lords, expressed his gratitude in behalf of the Jews of Britain. He stated that he hopes that neutral governments can be prevailed upon to admit Jews who may succeed in escaping from the Nazi territories.
The Jewish Agency for Palestine issued a statement hailing the joint declaration of the Allied Nations.
“Jewry hears in this verdict the voice of conscience of man,” the Agency statement said. “Active measures to counter the German policy flow from it in moral sequence. We appeal to all free nations to give refuge to the homeless Jews. We appeal to the British Government, as trustees of our National Home, to let the half-million Jews in Palestine full’il their duty by receiving their brethren and sisters in the one place where Jewish refugees cease to be strangers.”
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