The opening of Palestine to large scale Jewish immigration is an indispensable part of any realistic program to solve the problem of uprooted and displaced Jews after the war, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver declared today, addressing more than 1,000 executives of film and broadcasting companies, music publishers, theatrical producers and stars of the stage, screen and radio, at a luncheon for the United Jewish Appeal.
“Everyone realizes that European Jewry will emerge from this war physically ravaged and seriously depleted both in numbers and resources,” Dr. Silver said. “Financial aid will be required for a considerable time after the war to heal their wounds. Jews in the war-stricken countries will have special and peculiar problems of their own which will have to be met by supplementary aid given to them by their fellow-Jews in other parts of the world. This will be our first task. To salvage, to rebuild whatever can be rebuilt, to reunite broken families, and to reestablish shattered communities.
“There will also be a large uprooted Jewish population, a floating population of human misery seeking new homes in a world which will be inhospitable to immigration. Palestine alone offers a sound and realistic prospect for mass-scale Jewish immigration, provided the political barriers which the mandatory power has illegally erected are removed.”
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