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An Appeal for Justice to
President Harry S. Truman

To the President of
The United States

Re: The Honor of the United States
On the Palestine Question

Dear Mr. President:

In the name of the traditional American policy of defending
the politically persecuted and of protecting the right of homeless
people to homes and security, we make this urgent appeal to you
to act promptly in accordance with the established policy of the
:United States to assure speedy implementation of the United
Nations decision on Palestine' andto instruct our representatives
to the UN to insis pon the immediate reconstitution of the Jew-
ish State.

There are grave dangers for the 700,000 Jews in Palestine.
,They are like the early American Frontiersmen. They already
have created the foundation for the Jewish state. But unlike the
early American pioneers they are without guns, without means
of defense, their meager weapons constantly being threatened
with confiscation by an unfriendly mandatory power whose offi-
cials are giving encouragement to invading mercenary armies
which are becoming a serious menace to life and property in the
Land of Israel.

The issue is one of morality. While enemies within the con-
fines of Palestine are openly trading in war materials, Jews in
Palestine are at the mercy of the invading hordes from neighbor-
ing countries whose attacks are in defiance of decisions of the
:United Nations. They also are pawns in the hands
of the mandatory's police and military who refuse
to defend them while taking their last weapons
frotn them.

territttry which was to form the Jewish state has been allocated
for Jewish nationhood. Only 6,000 square miles of the original
40,000-square-mile territory of Palestine has been allocated for
the Jewish State. We accepted the decision in the interest of
peace. But even this mite is begrudged the Jewish survivors
from Nazism. And now the Mufti-inspired Nazi-dominated ele-
ments are declaring war on the Jewish community of Palestine
to prevent the enactment of this minimum of justice.

We ask you, Mr. President, to study the fear that is

written in the eyes of the Jews, who are shown in the accom-
panying picture, (below), carrying small children out of the
Jerusalem shopping district where 54 people were killed and
300 wounded as a result of a bombing for which we hold
responsible not only the Arab aggressors, but also the British
authorities.

We ask you in the name of justice and decency to exert
yuttr influence so that there should be an end to aggression
which must lead to even more severe, outrages and to help restore
peace by demanding the immediate recognition of the right to
statehood of the 700,000 Jews in Palestine and the 1,000,00Q
survivors from Nazism in Europe.

The fate of these people, Mr. President, is in YOUR hands!
The security of another 800,000 Jews in Arabic countries also is
in YOUR hands. By acting firmly you can assure the end of
tyranny and aggression. Delay will lead to destruction: . Firm-
ness and insistence on justice will help restore peace.

In the name of humanity and justice, Mr. President, we ask
you to act to insist upon the immediate implementation of the
UN decison, to lift the embargo so that the Jewish defenders may
have weapons for self-protection, to repudiate aggression b, n d
tyranny.

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We appeal to you, Mr. President, and through
you to the responsible officials in our. State De-
partment, to stand firm for a policy of fair play and
justice and to reject the pressure that comes. from
elements which are guided principally by profits
from oil. The oil which stands in the path of justice
for the Jewish people already is mixed with Jewish
blood, and we plead with you to return to your
humanitarian policy of supporting the decision of
the United Nations and to help enforce peace. Any
other stand can only mean a victory for the fascist
ideology of force and brutality, the destruction of
the United Nations and another world war.

The UN decision of Nov. 29, 1947, means a
lnip i urn of justice. Only a fraction of the Original

—International Photo