Ira A. Hirschmann, former UNRRA and War Refugee Board side, charged at a dinner meeting of the New England region of the Jewish National Fund last night that the U.S. delegation at the United Nations Assembly is misrepresenting the American people’s desire to aid the “lost people of Europe.” Mr. Hirschmann declared that it was ironic that the Polish government, which has been accused of not being democratically elected, fights for admission of Jews to the U.N. councils, while America is opposed.
The meeting, which was attended by 1,500 persons, adopted a resolution for wiring to President Truman and the State Department, decrying the British blockade of Palestine and the repression of civil liberties in the Holy Land, and urging the U.S. Government to secure representation for the Jewish Agency at the U.N., and an interim policy which would permit increased Jewish immigration in the period that the U.N. is investigating the entire problem.
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