A Christian delegation headed by Bishop James E. Freeman of this city on Friday submitted to British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay a petition urging Great Britain to steer a course favoring establishment of a free Jewish nation in Palestine.
The petition, sponsored by the Pro-Palestine Federation of America, expresses the opinion that enlightened Christian leadership in the United States favors a larger Jewish immigration into Palestine. It stresses the “intolerable sufferings” of millions of Jews in Eastern Europe and Germany and suggests the need for a clear and definite policy on the part of the British Government in the carrying out of the stipulations of the Palestine mandate.
Among the signers of the petition are Samuel Harden Church, president of the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh; Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, president of the Union of Congregational Churches in America; Ivan Lee Holt, president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ, St. Louis; Frederick B. Robinson, president of City College of N.Y.; John Haynes Holmes of the Community Church of N.Y. and others.
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