A call to the United Nations to undertake a special effort to persuade the British Government to withdraw and nullify the Palestine White Paper of 1939 was voiced by Judge Morris Rothenberg, outstanding American Zionist leader, in an address he delivered at a dinner of the Jewish National Fund here held at the Avondale Synagogue Center.
“If the White Paper remains in effect, all Jewish immigration to Palestine is to cease in 1944 and the purchase of land by Jews is to be restricted,” Judge Rothenberg pointed out. “That would be equivalent to freezing the Jewish National Home at its present stage of development and shutting its doors to the survivors of Hitler’s anti-Jewish massacres. It is hard to conceive a Europe ravaged and wartorn, indoctrinated with the deadly virus of Hitler anti-Semitism, absorbing the surviving Jews. What will become of the survivors? An Allied peace which will not face the problem of the unparalleled homelessness of the Jewish people will, frankly, leave one of the greatest world problems unattended to and unsolved.”
“No one who is familiar with the facts will believe that it is the Arab attitude that has persuaded Great Britain to take the course it has adopted toward the future development of the Jewish National Home,” he continued. “Britain’s defiance of hundreds of millions in India should be enough evidence to convince any impartial observer.”
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