Similar resolutions urging the President and the Secretary of State “to use their good offices” for the immediate establishment of mass-emergency rescue shelters in Palestine as havens for the Jews of Hungary were introduced today in both houses of Congress.
The resolution in Senate was sponsored by sen. Elbert D. Thomas of Utah, Sen. James E. Hurray of Montana and Sen. Honer Ferguson of Michigan, The resolution in the House was sponsored by Rep. Andrew L. Somers of New York, Rep. Thomas J. Lano of Massachusetts and Rep.Hugh D. Scott, Jr. of Pennsylvania. The text of the resolution reads:
” Whereas the Government of Hungary has specifically expressed its readiness to release those Jews who could enter Palestine, which is easily accessible from the Balkan countris by land route and calls for little or no shipping space, and whose 600,000 Hebrews are clamoring for an opportunity to shelter and feed their tormented kin and; whereas the Government of the United Kingdom and the United States have accepted the proposal of the Hungarian Government, made on July 17, 1944, to the International Committee of the Red Cross for the release of Jews, and have officially and publicly stated that they “Will find temporary havens of rescue where such people may live in safety” now therefore be it.
“Resolved that the Senate-House of Representatives of the United States recommends and urges the President and the Secretary of State to use their good offices to put into effect immediately the solemn obligation by the immediate establishment of mass emergency rescue shelters in the mandated territory of Palestine similar to the emergency shelter at Oswego, New York, so that the Hebrews of Europe find there havens from the ordeals of persecution.”
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