A demand that the British Government open the doors of Palestine to displaced Jews from Europe and that it fulfil its pledge to establish a Jewish Palestine immediately, were voiced at today’s session of a three-day conference on Palestine held under the auspices of the American Christian Palestine Committee at the Hotel Commodore.
Approximately 300 Jeading Christian clergymen of the Greater New York area heard addresses by Senator Owen Brewster, Republican of Maine, Dr. Carl Hermann Voss, co-director of the American Christian Palestine Committee, and Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein, executive director of the Committee on Army and Navy Religious Activities of the National Jewish Welfare Board. Dr. Henry A. Atkinson, general secretary of the World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches, was chairman of the session.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
