President Roosevelt was urged today to press for assistance for the surviving Jews of Europe and for the establishment of a Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine at the forthcoming Big Three conference, which is scheduled to take place soon.
In a message sent by the American Jewish Conference, on the occasion of the president’s inauguration, the organization said that the half-million Jews who still remain in Axis-occupied Europe can be saved if action is taken by the United Nations.
The conference also pointed to the plight of the thousands of Jews who have survived in liberated territory, but who are destitute and without any means of improving their economic position. The United Nations must take steps to issure their rehabilitation, and resettlement if necessary, the conference added.
It also appealed for lifting of the restriction on Jewish immigration into Palestine, which, it said, is the only hope for hundreds of thousands of homeless Jews in liberated countries, and declared that this can be best achieved by the establishment of a Jewish Commonwealth in palestine.
A similar message, voicing the hope that the meeting of president Roosevelt, prime Minister Churchill and premier Stalin will discuss the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine, was sent the president yesterday by the Zionist Organization of America.
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