JEWS URGED NOT TO MIGRATE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25080, 11 January 1947, Page 7

JEWS URGED NOT TO MIGRATE

“ CHANCE TO REBUILD LIVES IN EUROPE ” VIEWS OF AMERICAN JEWISH LEADER LONDON, January 9. Dr. Max Gottsachalk, Foreign Affairs Director of the American Jewish Committee, said that migration alone would not solve the Jewish problem in Europe. Dr. Gottsachalk, who is returning to the United States after an investigation of the conditions of European Jewry, said: “Hundreds of thousands of European Jews must be content to remain where they now live. They would be wise to reconcile themselves instead of making vain efforts to emigrate. “Jews are gradually having confiscated- property restored, and have a great opportunity to rebuild their lives in Europe as successfully as the troubled era will allow. “Government officials I met are Anxious that Jews should remain. France, Italy, and Sweden especially are co-operative.” Reuters correspondent m Paris states that the principality of Monaco has denied that authorities in France and Monaco prevented the departure of 600 Jews who tried to sail from Monte Carlo. The vice-president of the American League for Free Palestine (Professor Smertenko), who, it has been announced. will not be allowed to land in England as he has been classed as “undesirable,” , has arrived in Paris from Rome. He said he was staying a few days. Reuters says that the British Home Secretary (Mr Chuter Ede) has instructed * immigration officers . at airports throughout Britain to see that the order against Professor Smertenko landing is enforced. ’Diis means that if he succeeds in landing in a British or other aeroplane he will be put on the next available aeroplane to the United States. Reuters says that representatives of Jewish organisations in London are unanimous that Professor Smertenko should not be allowed to come to Britain. After it was announced that he would not be allowed into England after his previous visit, Professor Smertenko said that he had a pass-, port visa, and if not allowed to land he would appeal, as an American citizen. to the United States Embassy. When he stopped in Geneva he told the correspondent of the Associated Press that he would land at Heathrow. London, to-morrow. He said he would take a French aeroplane from Paris. Mrs« Myerson, new head of the Jewish Agency’s political department m Jerusalem, said that the Zionists must have the whole of Palestine for a Jewish State, according to the correspondent of “The Times” in Jerusalem. The correspondent comments that the statement illustrates the Zionist assumption that they must make the maximum demands and concentrate their manoeuvring as the final decisions on Palestine approach. Mrs Myerson said that an Arab minority in a Jewish State would have all rights and advantages, and would Probably be better off than now, because the Jews would raise the standard of life. The Jews still wanted *o co-operate with Britain. The deof the Zionist Congress not to attend the London Conference did not mean that there should be no contact or talks, but the Jews looked for ® token that Britain desired to cooperate, such as an assurance that the Establishment of a Jewish State w’ould ® e seriously considered. The correspondent adds that the ■Jews evidently hope to establish their Saae before they reach the conference 'ah!®. q