A “public reaffirmation” by the U.S. delegation to the forthcoming U.N. General Assembly session on Palestine of the declared American policy in favor of Jewish immigration into and settlement in the Holy Land was demanded tonight by Bartley C. Crum, former member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine.
Addressing a dinner at the Hotel Commodore, arranged by the Bnai Zion to mark the recent establishment by the fraternal group of a new colony in Palestine, Mr. Crum also urged that the United States delegation oppose British membership on any inquiry committee set up by the General Assembly and demand that no Arabs be on the committee unless equal representation is given the Jewish Agency.
The U.S. Government should demand the immediate admission of 100,000 Jews to Palestine, before any further investigations are made, and should ask Britain to accept the findings of the League of Nations Mandate Commission, which declared the White Paper of 1939 was illegal, Mr. Crum said.
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