A demand for Jewish Agency reprosentation at San Francisco and the establishment of a Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine was voiced here today in a resolution adopted at a Rally for Jewish Rights held in Lewisohn Statium under the auspices of the Zionist Emergency Council and the American Jewish Conference.
Dr, Stephen S. Wise, addressing the rally, disclosed that during a talk with the late President Roosevelt after the latter’s return from Yalta, he had been assured that one of Mr. Roosevelt’s objectives was to bring about an understanding in the Near East of what the rebuilding of Palestine had already come to mean, and what it might mean, to the welfare and security of the Arab people. Paying tribute to Mr. Roosevelt’s promptness in supporting the creation of a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine, Dr. Vise expressed confidence that President Truman, not only supports this same program, but will act to translate it into action.
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver told the meeting that “justice demands that the Jewish nation shall henceforth be included among the United Nations, shall have a voice and a seat in the Council of Nations, and shall be made secure and free in that hallowed land where already hundreds of thousands of our people have found sanetuary and to which many more must come from a war – ravaged and unwelcoming world, or perish.” He criticized the failure of our State Department to carry out what, he said, was the decire of the American people to secure abrogation of the White Paper and the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine.
Sen. Robert F. Wagner, addressing himself to the people of Britain, said that the time is ripe to do justice to the Jews. Are the Jews alone to find no solece in the destruction of Hittorism? Are they alone to be denied the haven where they can rekindde their will to live?” Other speakers included Louis Lipsky and Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. A telegram from Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, urging unrestricted Jewish immigration into Palestine, was received.
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