Six officers of the American Palestine Jewish Legion, the 5,300 Americans who fought in the British army in 1918 to help liberate Palestine from the Turks, today called on the British Embassy to plead for the abrogation of the Chamberlain White Paper of 1939 which bars new Jewish immigration into Palestine after March 31, 1944.
The delegation submitted to First Secretary W. D. Hayter a resolution adopted by the Legion which termed the White Paper a violation of England’s covenant with the Jewish people and of its obligation under the Palestine Mandate to facilitate the establishment of the Jewish National Home in Palestine. The spokesmen were Elias Ginsburg, national commander of the legion; Samuel Marche, first national vice commander; Oscar I. Kahn, second national vice commander; Robert Lemberg, national adjutant, and Joseph Brainin and Arnold K. Isreeli, members of the national executive board.
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