Timed for Prime Minister Attlee’s visit to Washington, several hundred orthodox rabbis will stage a demonstration there on Monday in an effort to prevail upon the British Government to grant President Truman’s request for the immediate admission of 100,000 Jews from Europe to Palestone. Other demands which the rabbis will advance are:
1. The immediate repudiation of the British White Paper of 1939 barring Jews from entering Palestine.
2. The immediate formation of an Anglo-American commission to carry out the expressed intentions of the League of Nations Mandate.
3. The immediate release from the Egyptian Sudan, Eritrea and other British concentration camps of Jews who have been deported from Palestine and are imprisoned without the benefit of a trial.
The demonstration, arranged under the auspices of the Zionist Revisionist Organization of America, will convene at 1:30 p.m. at the Capitol to hear addresses by Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley and House Majority Leader John McCormack. The procession will then march to the White House, and from there to the British Embassy.
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