The United Nations should take swift steps to provide immediate admission into Palestine of 100,000 Jews still “rotting in the D.P. camps” of Europe, Moshe Shertok declared today before 350 Jewish community leaders at the Connecticut State Conference of the United Jewish Appeal.
“International covenants have guaranteed Jewish rights in Palestine,” he said. “We will base our case for immediate admission of 100,000 of our brothers and sisters who are rotting in Europe’s DP camps on that daring and vision which has made Palestine an example to the entire world, and which has contributed greatly to the wellbeing of all peoples in this part of the world.” With the support of American Jewry through the United Jewish Appeal, we stand prepared to welcome every Jewish survivor in Europe who wants to start life anew in the Jewish homeland.
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