The belief that “Palestine will open its doors” to a large number of displaced Jews was expressed here tonight by Dr. Stephen S. Wise, addressing a dinner arranged by the United Jewish Appeal. Dr. Wise called for support of the U.J.A. $100,000,000 drive. Senator Alben Barkley, Senate majority Leader, was the other principal speaker.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency, sent a message from Jerusalem, emphasizing that he regards the $100,000,000 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal as “a supreme attempt of American Jews to set the footsteps of a stricken people into the pathway of security, freedom and life.”
“We in Palestine,” Dr. Weizmann stated, “are secure in the knowledge that American Jewry is solidly and affirmatively supporting the Jewish National Home and all it means for an independent existence for the Jewish people. I know that all, another Zionists or non-Zionists, will give their unreserved and pre-eminent support to the Palestine Foundation Fund and Jewish National Fund which, through the United Palestine Appeal, are included in the United Jewish Appeal. In this year 1946 all other enterprises for Palestine, worthy as they are, will be subordinated and put into their proper framework under the overshadowing, historic obligation to the United Jewish Appeal.”
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