The Government of the United States, as well as the Allied peoples, were asked “not to delay until the end of the war the punishment of those who have been guilty of the outrages against thousands of Jews who are being exterminated hourly,” in a declaration adopted here last night at the concluding session of the 18th annual convention of the National Labor Committee for Palestine, attended by more than 2,500 delegates from all parts of the country. The convention also decided to raise $1,000,000 for Palestine in 1943 as compared with $571,000 raised this year.
“There can be no equanimity as long as the enemy proceeds with his diabolical plan to wipe out the Jews within his grip,” the declaration said. “The democracies cannot make peace with the thought that no counter-action can be taken even during the war, to forestall the execution of these innocent victims of Nazi brutality. Shocked by the annihilation of Jewish community life in Europe, the disintegration of Jewish families, and the ruination of millions of Jews, we extend, in this desperate hour our hand in unity, and hope for the speedy rescue of Jewish martyrs from the Hitlerite and Fascist yoke. We send greetings and our encouragement to our wandering brothers wherever bitter fate has dispersed them.”
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