A resolution demanding that “an international commission, composed of competent Christian leaders, be sent to Palestine at an early date to study and analyze the problems of Jews and Arabs and return with specific solutions to meet that issue in a spirit of wise and sympathetic statesmanship,” was unanimously adopted by the executive committee of the Christian Council for Palestine which numbers over 400 Christian ministers and laymen.
The resolution urges that in the meantime “plans be made now to place Palestine under an international mandate of the United Nations” and that “the doors of Palestine be opened at once to admit tens of thousands more of the persecuted Jewish people from war-torn countries of Europe.” Earnest consideration should be given to the facts recognized in the Balfour Declaration” in view of the splendid progress already achieved and the remarkable possibilities for soil reclamation and the settlement of several million more people in that country,” the resolution demands.
The executive committee also unanimously voted “to lay emphasis upon the following resolutions:
“1. That America take the lead in helping to save millions of Jews from the horror created by the Nazi terror in Europe. We suggest that our government consider the possibility of utilizing the immigration quotas from all nations for 1943-44 by which a total of 310,000 visas may be issued, and that 100,000 of these be issued to an equal number of Jews now homeless and stateless in Europe. Further, to provide refuge in America by bringing them to this country in available American ships on their successive trips from abroad;
“2. That Christian churches all over America protest ceaselessly against the brutality practiced upon Jews by the Nazis;
“3. That the United Nations make a solemn pledge to consider the plight of the Jews as a paramount issue in the peace settlement, so that this great people may be given the right to live in dignity and self-respect in whatever place on the face of the earth they may choose;
“4. That provision be written into the peace treaty to make the outbreak of political anti-Semitism anywhere prima facie evidence of incitation to crime, and punishable as such under international law.
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