NATIONAL HOME

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1944, Page 7

NATIONAL HOME

JUSTICE FOR JEWS

AMERICANS' PLEDGE

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. Mr. Sumner Welles, former United States Under-Secreta'ry of State, publicly endorsed the establishment of • a Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine as part of the "peace settlement to come" in a message addressed to the ■■'delegates of the forty-seventh annual convention of the Zionist Organisation of America, which was held recently. The text of the message is as follows::— "I welcome the opportunity afforded me by. the president of the Zionist Organisation of America to send this message upon the occasion of the 47th annual convention of the organisation. "The record of the Jewish people in Palestine during the past quarter of a century has been outstanding. Their ■-. faith and persistence in the face ,of grave dangers and notwithstanding in-; numerable obstacles have been superb , and a cause for inspiration to all who believe in-democracy and in the prin- \ ciples of human liberty. What they have achieved is in' reality a modern miracle. . " j "I. earnestly hope that the great cause which the organisation upholds, i -. and for which it has striven so zealously since the 'time of its creation may I ■ultimately triumph, .and that in the! peace settlements to come there may j 'be established in a Jewish! Commonwealth 'to whose inhabitants j : \yill be guaranteed all of the individual' liberties, in which the people .of the . United States so fervently believed."] i RECCNSTITUTION OF PALESTINE.] Both majority and minority leaders! of the House of Representatives, Congressmen John W, McCormack and \ Joseph W. Martin, jun.,- respectively,! in separate statements issued on the] occasion of the Zionist Convention, pledged ' the support of their parties to'the, "reconstitution of Palestine as a' free and'dunocratie Jewish Common- ■ wealth:?' . ■ .-. " ." .•:;, Democratic! Majority Leader McCorrnack voiced confidence that when decisions will be made regarding the peace to come "full justice will be done* to the Jewish National Home," whereby' the Jewish people will be granted" the opportunity of unrestricted immigration to, Palestine and the complete freedom for the acquisition .of land, so that on the banks of the Jordan the rebirth of the Jewish will take place in the land of ? its forefathers, to become^ with the . help of Gou, an equal member of the ifamily of nations. ' "It is my profound conviction that our American responsible leadership in Washington will make an effective 'contribution' towards the achievement .of this Godly goal, for the sake of the •Jewish people as well as for the good : of al| mankind," Mr. McCormack said. Asserting that as "Republican Leader of the House, I was pleased to ; appear before the Foreign Affairs Committee last. February to urge the passage of a resolution placing the Congress on record as in sympathy with the Jewish aspirations for the restoration of our national life in Palestine." Minority Leader Martin declared: "Following the victorious conof the war, the only country which will be capable, of receivingi - and absorbing large numbers of these I unfortunate people of Europe will be Palestine,- which country was made ready»for that very purpose." Lauding the record of achievements of Jewish pioneers in Palestine in the past two decades, Minority Leader Martin stated that "600,000 Jews of Palestine have made a magnificent .contribution to the war effort of the United Nations. Thousands of their r sons have volunteered in the armed service of Great Britain and gave a good; account of themselves on the field of battle. .. "It is nothing but' elementary justice to enable the homeless Jews of ' Europe, '■he victims of "the Nazi tyranny, to enter Palestine, not on suf- ; terance, but as a matter of Tight."