Assailing the “unconscionable tactics” of the British Government and the U.S. State Department, which, he charged, are “designed to delay indefinitely the fulfillment of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry’s recommendation that 100,000 European Jews be admitted into Palestine at once,” Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, chairman of the executive committee of the American Zionist Emergency Council, announced today that a mass demonstration will be held at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday evening, June 12, in order to “make the facts available to the public and give expression to the feeling of indignation shared by the Jews of America.”
In a statement issued here, Dr. Silver warned that “an unprecedented catastrophe” is inevitable in the displaced persons camps, unless the doors of Palestine are opened to the remnants of European Jewry. “The British Government and the U.S. Department of State should understand that if there is mass-suicide in the displaced persons camps–as observers have predicted–the blood of these tragic people will be on their hands,” he declared.
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