President Truman was urged today to ## carefully the decision on the proposal, of U.N. Secretary-general Trygve Lie for the establishment of a United Nations fact-finding committee on Palestine which would submit its recommendations to the next General Assembly session in September.
The appeal was made in the Senate by Senator Irving M. Ives of New York in his maiden speech, which was devoted to the Palestine issue and to the question of admitting more displaced persons to the United States. He criticized Lie’s proposal because of the long delay it would involve.
“The entire problem of displaced persons will be measurably assisted by immediate substantial immigration of Jews into Palestine as recommended by the Anglo-“American Committee of Inquiry last year,” he declared. “This immigration, which Great Britain alone can make possible, cannot await a solution of the entire Palestine problem. Human life cannot languish so long.”
He said the Palestine problem is “only a part of the larger problem involving displaced persons.” He announced that he will soon introduce an immigration bill, which would tend “in some measure to alleviates the present distress in which so many thousands of young innocent victims of the war now find themselves.”
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