Pointing out that the majority of Europe’s 2,400,000 Jews who miraculously survived the years of Nazi brutality and oppression are still being persecuted and driven into ghettos,” Senator Claude Pepper of Florida demanded today that the governments of the world keep faith with the six million Jews massacred by the Nazis, in an address delivered before 200 Jewish leaders attending the Northeastern Pennsylvania Conference of the UJA at the Hotel Casey here.
Sen. Pepper called upon the United Nations to take steps to insure “that they will never again let any nation inflict such atrocities, such heinous wrongs upon any people anywhere even in their own lands.” Such “a covenant with mankind by the powers of the world” would give a new sense of security to the uprooted and displaced Jews of Europe, he said.
“There are, unhappily, not too many lands to bid them welcome, not too many places where they are wanted, not too many places where the locked gates of prejudice, intolerance, envy, do not bar their way to the good places of the world,” the Florida Senator said. “So, naturally “the eyes of these people of Europe turned, like the eyes of innumerable generations of their forebears, toward Palestine.” Criticizing those powers which “have broken their promise again of the promised land” with the assertion that Palestine could not absorb any more Jews, Mr. Pepper, who visited Palestine last Fall, said: “I have seen with my own eyes that this is not so.”
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