Zionist Leaders Assured That U.S. Will Never Approve Palestine White Paper

“The American Government will never give its approval to the British White Paper,” Congressman John W. McCormack, majority leader in the House of Representatives, stated in a message addressed to the annual New England regional conference of the United Palestine Appeal.

Pointing out that he had been permitted to make this statement as an addition to the statement on the same subject which President Roosevelt authorized Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Dr. Abba Hillel Silver to release, Rep. McCormack informed the 1,000 representatives of Jewish organizations and communities in New England who attended the conference, that he favored the Palestine resolution now pending in Congress. “I will do my part as an American and Christian to help bring it about in this better world which I visualize, that there shall be a place for a free and democratic Jewish commonwealth in Palestine,” his message said. “Despite the White Paper, the doors of Palestine will not be closed to the Jewish people.”

Congressman Ranulf Compton, co-sponsor of the Palestine resolution, addressing the conference, declared that he had “not become the author and sponsor of this resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives in order to take part in the liquidation of the Balfour Declaration.” He challenged the State and War Departments “to tell the American people enough to convince them that the Palestine resolution is actually prejudicial to the successful prosecution of the war and is not, in fact, merely prejudicial to the selfish interests of the British Colonial Office, or prejudicial to some new mysterious foreign oil policy affecting the United States and King Ibn Saud, the Arab ruler.”

Other speakers at the conference included Pierre Van Paassen, Mrs. Archibald Silverman and Dr. James G. Heller. Elihu D. Stone was re-elected president of the New England U.P.A. for 1944.