More than 800 persons from 35 states arrived in Washington today to attend a national extraordinary Zionist conference convoked by the American Zionist Emergency Council for the purpose of blueprinting Zionist strategy during the coming months and discussing the American inaction on the United Nations decision to partition Palestine. The national Zionist session will begin Sunday and continue throughout Monday.
In explaining the purpose of this conference, the American Zionist Emergency Council issued a declaration stating: “The situation in Palestine has been allowed to deteriorate as a direct consequence of the inertia of the United States Government. Although the need for an international force to implement the Palestine decision is clearly indicated by the present situation and has been recommended by the United Nations Palestine Commission, and although the need for the establishment of a Jewish militia was clearly envisioned by the Palestine resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations, no positive declaration on these vital issues has been made by our Government.
“The United States, which played a decisive role in the passage of the United Nations decision on Palestine, has failed to act with strength and conviction. It is time for Americans to inquire whether the United States has chosen to ‘sit out’ the present critical phase of the Palestine problem,” the declaration concluded.
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