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Conferees Ask United Nations Act to Save Jews

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silenced Jewish•communities of
Europe, calls for the loyal and
faithful fulfillment of the cove-
nant entered into between the
nations of the world and the
Jewish people.
"We call for the fulfillment
of the Balfour Declaration, and
of the Mandate for Palestine
whose intent and underlying
purpose, based on the 'histori-
cal connection of the Jewish
people with Palestine,' was to
reconstitute Palestine. as the
Jewish Commonwealth.
"We demand the immediate
withdrawal in its entirety of
the Palestine White Paper of
May 1939 with its unwarranted
restrictions on Jewish immi-
gration and land settlement.
The White Paper is a violation
of the rights accorded to the
Jewish people under the Man-
date' for Palestine. It was char-
acterized by Mr. W ins t on
Churchill in the House of Com-
mons as 'a breach and a repu-
diation of the Balfour Declara-
tion.' The Permanent Mandates
Commission of the League of
Nations refused to recognize its
legality or its moral validity.
"The Conference demands
that the gates of Palestine be
opened to Jewish immigration,
and that the Jewish Agency,
recognized under the Mandate
as the authorized representa-
tive of the Jewish people, be
vested with authority to direct
and regulate immigration into
Palestine, to develop to the
maximum the agricultural and
industrial possibilities and the
natural resources of the coun-
try, and to utilize its unCulti-
vated and unoccupied lands for
Jewish colonization and for the
benefit of the country as a
whole.
"The measures here urged
constitute the essential pre-
requisites for the attainment of
a Jewish majority and for the .
re-creation of the Jewish Com-
monwealth.
"In the pursuit of its objec-
tive of a Jewish . Common-
wealth, the Jewish' people has
steadfastly held before it the
ideals which shall integrate
Jewish Palestine within the
now democratic world struc-
ture.
Cooperate With Arabs
"The Jewish people reaffirms
its readiness and desire for full
co-operation with its Arab
neighbors in Palestine, and, in
the work of its own national
redemption, welcomes the eco-
nomic and- political develop-
ment of the Arab ,peoples of
the Near East.
"On the basis both of the
'part it has played in the history
of civilization, and of its pres-
ent achievement in Palestine,
the Jewish people believes that
the Jewish Commonwealth to
be established will represent
another fundamental contribu-
tion to the social and political
ideals of the world. It will
finally answer the agonized cry
of the most martyred of peo-
ples, and enable it to take its
rightful place in that progres-
sive order of mankind which,
we pray, may issue from the
present struggle."
Historic Document
Throughout the reading of the
resolution applause greeted vir-
tually every sentence, until at the
end the audience rose, cheered
and broke into the singing of
Hatikvah. Henry Monsky, presi-
dent of Bnai Brith, rose to say
that the resolution would become
an historic document vital to the
future of the Jewish people and
he ranted to claim the privilege,

• one he would cherish all his life,
of seconding the motion. The
vote was then taken by the show-
ing of the blue delegate cards. A
vast sea of upraised arms replied
to the call for affirmative votes.
There were four negatve votes
by Rabbi Louis Mann, of Chi-
cago, and the delegates of the
American Jewish Committee,
Joseph M. Proskauer, New York,
Jacob Blaustein, Baltimore, and
Fred Lazarus, Columbus.
Proskauer's Statement
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, who pre-
sided at the session, - expressed
gratification at the vote and
noted that although he had voted
against the resolution the presi-
dent of the American Jewish
Committee had remained in the
hall as a delegate. At this, Mr.
Proskauer received a. rising ova-;
tion. He then read the Commit-
tee declaratior, which said, in
part:
"These resolutions at this criti-
cal time call for vesting in Jew-
ish authority the full power to
regulate and direct immigration
into Palestine and presently call
for the creation of a Jewish Com-
monwealth. Quite apart from
the validity or invalidity of these
proposals were they to be con-
sidered in the interval between
the cessation of hostilities and a
Peace Conference, we believe
that at this time, when the grav-
est and most delicate military
and world-wide political ques-
tions are involved, the. present is-
suance of these propdsals con-
tained in the resolutions is un-
Wise because it may carry with it
embarrassment to the govern-
ments of •the United Nations, and
is calculated to jeopardize the
status of Jews and even preju-
dice the fullest development of
the Jewish settlement in Pales-
tine itself."
Resolutions on Postwar Status
A wide-ranging program af-
fecting the political status of the
Jews in the post-war world was
adopted by the Conference. It.
follows in part:
"The catastrophe which has
overwhelmed the Jews of Europe
has its roots in the international'
anarchy which contributed to the
assault of the . Axis powers on
civilization. •
"We earnestly hope that a
world order based on the Four
Freedoms and the Atlantic Char-
ter, will also find its expression
in an International Bill of Rights.
embodying:
"1. Full and complete protec-
tion of life and liberty for all in
habitants of all countries without
distinction • of birth, . nationality,,
language, race or religion.
"2. Unequivocal equality of.
rights in laW and in fact for all
the citizens of every country.
"3. The inalienable right of
all religious, ethnic and cultural
groups to maintain and foster
their respective group identities!
on the basis of equality.
"Anti-Semitism as an instru-
ment of internal and interna-
tional policy, should be out-

la wed. In order to be made
effective, this outlawing should
be implemented by interna-
tional conventions and national
legislation.
"We urge that proper and
adequate machinery be estab-
lished to effect and safeguard
these objectives.
"We urge that special attention
be given by the United • Nations
to the - distinctive Jewish' prob-
lems created by this policy in the
application by the United Na-
tions of the following measures
to repair the - ravages' caused by
the war:
"1. Immediate abrogation with
retroactive effect of all measures
discriminating on racial, relig-
ious, or political grounds against
any section of the population, in-
cluding all acts of denaturaliza-
. .
tion.
"2. Recognition of the right of.
all refugees, deportees; and other
victims of Axis persecution, if
they desire to do so, to return to
their places of de facto residence
and to the opportunities of which
they have been deprived, and
provision of financial and other
measures enabling them to do so.
Ask Indemnification -
"3. Recognition of the right to
indemnification - for all those who
have suffered the loss of property
and/or livelihood as a result of
discriminatory measures, includ-
ing the loss of communal .prop-
erty by Jewish. organizations,
such indemnification to be a
charge on public funds.
"4. Detention of p e r s o n s
charged with crimes against in-
ternational law and humanity,
such crimes to be understood to
include all acts committed by the
Nazis and their followers, de-
signed to despoil, degrade and
destroy civilian populations un-
der their control, and the com-
pletion of arrangements for the
trial of such persons immediately
following the cessation of hostili-
ties in accordance with proced-
ures agreed upon by the gov-
ernments of the United Nations."
A six-point program, submit-
ted by the Rescue Committee,
f011oWs in part:
"The Conference urges. that the
following measures be taken im-
mediately:
"1. A solemn warning ad-
dressed by the leaders of the
democracies to the Axis govern-
ments and their satellites must
make it clear that the instigators
of crimes against . the .Jews, as
well as the accomplices and
agents of the criminals, will be
brought to justice; that all who
prevent the release of Jews from
Axis captivity and their depart-
ure to havens of refuge will be
punished for. their complicity in
the policy of extermination; and
that resistance to the policy of

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Patriotic Convocation

Sunday• Sept. 12, at 2' p.m.
Speaker: Rabbi S. P. Wohl-
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extermination and aid given to editorial in the New York Post,
victims of Nazi policy will be liberal daily.
taken into consideration on the
Pointing out that we have
day of reckoning.
room for the refugees in this
"2. This warning should be country, the paper asserted: "If
Primary Task
given force and substance by the
immediate constitution of the Al- we practiced what we preach
lied Commission on War Crimes shipping difficulties and immi-
in London which, thoUgh its for- gration problems would be over-
mation was announced nearly a come with ease. But we do' not
year ago, has not yet met. And always practice it. Hence the
it should be a primary task of deplorable necessity of Palestine
the Commission to bring home to now.
"Moreover, a Palestine will be
the people of Germany the enor-
mity of the - crimes committed in necessary for the future unless
their name and the certainty • of the democracies have a change
retribution.
of heart and welcome immi-
"3. The democracies should grants as fellow men and women
recognize and proclaim the right seeking a secure home and with-
of temporary asylum for every out regard to their racial and
surviving Jewish . man, - woman religious derivations."
and child who can escape from
the Hitlerite fury into the terri- `Smear' Campaign
Seen in Vice Report
tories of the United Nations.
New York (JPS)—A dispatch
"4. There should be public ac-
knowledgment of the right. of to _ the New York Daily News,
every Jewish refugee who can tabloid with the world's largest
reach Palestine not only to - find circulation, alleging that Tel
a haven but to establish his per- Aviv "has more prostitutes per
head of population . than any
manent home in that country.
other city in the world," was
"5. The neutral nations bor- termed here by Zionist leaders as
dering on Axis occupied territori- another phase of the "smear"
ties should be . encouraged by campaign being permitted by the
financial help, by additional sup- Palestine Government against the
plies and by appropriate guaran- Jewish community in Palestine
tees on the ultimate disposal of in order to forestall any favor-
the refugees brought into their able action for Jews in Palestine
territories, to secure the release during or after the war.
of Jews, especially children, and
The story, dated Tel Aviv and
give them .hospitality in their
signed "Donald Mackenzie," was
own lands or the right of transit
declared to .have been suggested
to havens of refuge.
by "two Army officers." The
"6. A special intergovernmen- familiarity of the reporter . with
tal agency should be created the country which he was al-
which, working in consultation legedly describing was mani-
with J e w i s h organizations, fested in calling 'Tel Aviv "the
should be provided with the re- Atlantic City of Jerusalem,"
sources and armed with the au- which would be something like
thority . to seize every opportu calling Atlantic City "the Chi-
nity to send supplies through ap- cago of New- York." •
propriate channels, .provide the . Zionist leaders were not es-
means for Jewish self-defense pecially angry at the Daily News,
and coordinate and expand the recalling that it is part of the
work of rescue through the un- Patterson-McCormick chain of
derground."
newspapers, but they did point
A resolution asking for Jewish out that no such reports of vice
representation on United Nations among American soldiers have
assistance agencies was adopted come from any other of the far-
after presentation by Dr. Hay.irn flung bases for our troops
Fineman of Philadelphia.

Jewish National Palestine
A Necessity, Says N. Y. Post

New York (JPS)—"We agree
with the majority at the Ameri-
can Jewish . Conference that a
Jewish National Palestine is a
necessity," it was declared in an

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