The National Council of Rumanian Zionist Organizations, at its first meeting this year, adopted a resolution expressing solidarity with the members of the new Jewish Agency executive.
The resolution comdemned the “policy of terror and illegality being earried out by the mandatory power in Palestine.” It also protested the Palestine Government ultimatum to the Jewish national institutions and hailed the answer of the Agency and the Jewish National Council, refusing to ask the Jewish community to act as “police spies.”
The Council denounced the deportation of Jewish visaless immigrants from Palestine as “illegal,” and appealed to High Commissioner Sir Alan G. Cunningham to commute the death sentence imposed on Dov Gruner. It was revealed at the meeting that 40 percent of Rumania’s Jews who applied to the Allied occupation authorities for permission to emigrate to Palestine are still waiting for official action on their requests.
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