Petitions bearing 100,000 signatures and urging immediate implementation of Palestine partition were presented to Acting Secretary of State Robert A, Lovett today by a five-man delegation representing the New England divisions of the American Zionist Emergency Council, the American Jewish Congress, the Jewish War Veterans, the American Christian Palestine Committee, and the Massachusetts Federation of Labor.
Secretary Lovett spent an hour with the delegates in an off-the-record discussion of the Palestine situation. Rabbi Joseph S. Shubow, honorary president of the New England division of the American Jewish Congress, said that the group had I pointed out to Lovett that attempts over a quarter-century to conciliate the Arabs had been exhausted and could not be expected to succeed now. Oscar Toye, representing the J.W.T., said that he had urged lifting of the embargo.
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