ALLIED ACTION URGED
PERMANENT JEWISH HOME
OPENING OF PALESTINE (10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 8
British, French and American Jewish leaders, at a meeting of the national administrative council. of the Zionist organisation of America, urged action by President Roosevelt and the United Nations for an immediate and permanent settlement of the Jewish problem, with emphasis on the opening of Palestine to Jewish immigration. .
Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the Zionist organisation of America, declared that 75 per cent of Europe s Jews outside Russia have been killc-'t by the Nazis and there is no hope of the rehabilitation of hundreds of thousands of the remainder except m Palestine. . Mr. Joseph Fischer, a member of the French Jewish delegation, an underground leader, reported the existence of a strong Zionist sentiment among the surviving French Jews, thousands of whom had actively participated in the resistance movement.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21607, 9 January 1945, Page 4
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