The United Synagogue of America convention, which ad##ed here today, adopted a resolution last night expressing the “profound gratitude” ### 1,000 delegates to President Truman for his “forthright, wise and just act of ?esmenship” in being the first head of a major power to extend recognition to Israel.
The parley also approved resolutions calling for the lifting of the American Argo on shipment of arms to Palestine; urging the U.S. to sponsor the admission of ##el to “the United Nations; and expressing the hope that legislation to facilitate admission of DP’s to this country would soon be passed.
FORMER ADVISER ON JEWISH AFFAIRS TO U.S. ARMY APPEALS FOR ADMISSION OF WEAK
“Although potential soldiers and workers among the displaced persons are in the neatest demand,” he declared, “the Jewish state will not “be worthy of survival and, I understand God’s law correctly, will not succeed in surviving, if it does not accept the old, the children, the families and the widows, even the weak and the sick.”
Insisting that a Jewish state “without humanity and without charity would be inconceivable,” Rabbi Bernstein continued: “To abandon the helpless Jews to Europe because they are not in the highest categories of usefulness would be as cynical and as will as the conduct of the Nazis and the British Government in the face of Jewish need.”
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