A resolution appealing to the Soviet Union and the Communist governments of Eastern Europe to permit the emigration of 3,000,000 Jews from their territories to Israel was adopted here last night at the opening session of the national conference of the United Zionists-Revisionists of America. A second resolution urged the United States Government to give maximum assistance and support to Israel.
The resolutions were adopted following an address by Beinish Epstein, chairman of the political committee of the organization, who called for the Jewish people to launch a widespread campaign demanding that the Soviet Union “let our people go.” He charged that the Jews in Eastern Europe are being “annihilated spiritually and physically.”
Dr. Joseph Schechtman, chairman of the Revisionist-Herut world party council, charged that the Government of Israel is now directing not only state policy but Zionist policy as a whole. This absurd and harmful situation has resulted in the weakening and frustrating of the Zionist Organization, and has, by the same token, deprived Israel of a powerful and dynamic force,” he added.
Speaking in the name of his party, Dr. Schechtman demanded the “restoration of Zionism’s political sovereignty and the establishment of an independent Zionist political department.”
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