Harold L. Ickes, former Secretary of the Inerior, told more than 300 Jewish leaders attending the Georgia State Conference of the United Jewish Appeal in the Ansley Hotel today that in exchange for aid to Greece and Turkey, the United States Government should insist that Great British disavow the White Paper policy in Palestine which restricts Jewish immigration and settlement.
In urging the removal of “illegal and immoral” restrictions on the entry of Jews into Palestine, he emphasized that the U.S. has a responsibility to see to it that the British Government carries out its pledges to the Jewish people contained in the Balfour Declaration for the establishment and development of a Jewish national home in Palestine. In the course of his address, Mr. Ickes also urged that the United States make “less restrictive” its immigration policies to receive larger numbers of refugees.
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