None of the funds raised by the United Jewish Appeal or expended by any of its agencies is used to further terrorist activity in Palestine, it was emphasized in a resolution adopted last night by the U.J.A. administrative committee. The resolution strongly condemned terrorism as “injurious to the best interests of the Jewish community in Palestine.”
The text of the resolution reads as follows:
“In response to inquiries that have been made, the Administrative Committee of the United Jewish Appeal, in which are included officers and representatives of the Joint Distribution Committee, the United Palestine Appeal and the United Service for New Americans, takes the opportunity of reemphasizing that in conformity with the very nature of its purpose of using its funds for humanitarian relief and reconstruction, none of the funds raised by the United Jewish Appeal or expended by any of its agencies is utilized in furtherance of any terrorist activity.
“The Administrative Committee records its abhorrence of the terrorism that has been launched in Palestine by the two terrorist organizations whose activities have been unequivocally condemned by the Jewish Agency for Palestine and all other responsible Jewish bodies. It condemns the acts that have been perpetrated as injurious to the best interests of the Jewish community of Palestine. In the interests of Jewry, it joins with the Jewish Agency in calling upon these misguided few to desist from all terrorist activities.”
The resolution was signed by Henry Morgenthau, Jr., former Secretary of the Treasury, who recently assumed the post of general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal and by Edward M.M. Warburg, chairman, Joint Distribution Committee; Rabbi Israel Goldstein, national chairman, United Palestine Appeal, and Edwin Rosenberg, president, United Service for New Americans.
Copies of the resolution were simultaneously telegraphed by Mr. Morgenthau to President Truman at the White House; Secretary of State Geonge Marshall; Senator Arthur Vandenberg, President Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate; Senator Alben W. Barkley, minority Senate leader; Congressman Joseph W. Martin, majority leader of the House; Sam Rayburn, minority House leader; Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt; Lord Inverchapel, British Ambassador at Washington and Major Cyril Barkley Ormerod, head of the British Information Service.
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