The democratic world, “with some few honorable exceptions,” was charged today with complicity in the murder of 5,000,000 Jews, in a resolution adopted by the Latin-American Zionist Congress meeting here.
At the same time, the congress urged that, in order that as many of the survivors as possible may be saved, the United Nations assist in the rehabilitation of Jewish life in Europe and in the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine within its historical borders.
Other resolutions demanded abolition of the British White Paper on Palestine, which it branded as contradictory to the promises made by Britain, and charged it was responsible for the failure to save thousands of Jews from Nazi-occupied countries; urged creation of a Jewish Commorwealth in Palestine, with jurisdiction over immigration, colonization and fiscal matters in the hands of the Jewish Agency during a transitional period proceeding the establishment of the commonwealth; and supported the demand for Jewish representation at San Francisco and the peace conferences.
The congress expressed gratitude to the peoples and governments of Latin-America for their sympathy with the Zionist cause and appealed to the American liberal tradition to support “the morally and politically justified claims of the Jewish people.
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