Wires were sent today to Secretary of State James F. Byrses and Foreign Minister Ernest Bovin by the Central Committee of Liberated Jews of Germany warning that any delay in the acceptance and implementation of the Anglo-American inquiry committee’s report granting 100,000 Palestine certificates to Europe on Jews will lead to further tragedy for the displaced Jews.
Declaring that the report had been awaited with great impatience by the displaced Jews of Germany, the wire pointed to recent events at Stuttgart, Diessen, and Lendsberg, where DP’s clashed with Germans, and said that conditions among the Jews had reached a critical point. These disturbances, the wires asserted, were indicative of the rising unrest among the Jews who a full year after liberation are “still imprisoned in a land which cannot afford them any asylum.”
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