After visiting Senators and Congressmen in an effort to impress them with the necessity for the United States taking the lead in implementing the U.N. Palestine partition decision, approximately 700 Zionist leaders assembled here from all parts of the country resumed their session today pledging the “whole-hearted support of American Jewry” to the Jews of Palestine in the struggle to establish a Jewish state.
The two-day conference, convened by the American Zionist Emergency Council, concluded tonight after adopting a message of solidarity “to the valiant embattled Jews in Palestine.” A resolution condemning “the sabotage of the U.H. decision by the British Government” was also adopted.
The conference declared in a resolution that the Zionist leaders find it “indefensible that the U.S. Government has on the one hand failed to act in the face of the grave situation in Palestine, and on the other hand, by certain specific actions of its own, has contributed to its deterioration.” It called upon the government “to reassert its initiative in the United Nations,” and take the following steps:
“1. To instruct the American delegation to the U.N. Security Council to obtain faithful compliance with the U.H. resolution by all governments concerned and to take all necessary measures against those member states of the United Nations which openly defy the General Assembly’s resolution.
“2. To instruct the American delegation to the U.N. Security Council that it support and, if necessary, initiate the formation of a militia for the Jewish state and of such international forces as may be required to insure the speedy carrying out of the resolution of the Assembly.
“3. To modify the embargo on arms to the Middle East so as to insure an unimpeded flow of arms to the Jewish defense force in Palestine for the purpose of defending attached Palestine Jewry which is upholding the U.N. resolution.”
The conference expressed appreciation of “the energy and devotion with which the U.N. Palestine Commission is pursuing its task.”
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