NO PLANNED EXODUS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26043, 5 January 1946, Page 5

NO PLANNED EXODUS

" FANTASTICALLY UNTRUE** LONDON, Jan. 2. The suggestion by the chief of U.N.R.R.A. operations in Europe, Lieu-tenant-general Morgan, that European had planned a mass exodus to Palestine was not only fantastically untrue, but ''clearly designed to prejudice the findings of the AngloAmerican commission of inquiry, said Mr A 1 Easterman, London political secretary of. the World Jewish Congress. He denied that there was a secret Jewish force inside Europe. “ Political statements of this kind copie strangely from the chief of U.N.R.R.A. It is an undoubted fact that a vast majority of European Jews see in Palestine the only possibility for their future freedom and security. Sir Frederick’s allegation that Jews have a plan to become a world Power, organised for getting what they want, is sheer Nazism, and might well come from any Hitler speech or from any of his gang of Fascist anti-Semites,” said Mr Easterman. “ His statement that reports of atrocities committed against Polish Jews .was based less and less on fact is a libel on 6,000,000 Jewish dead whose murder is one of the principal elements of the Nuremberg trial.” High army sources state that there is evidence to support the belief of Lieutenant-general Morgan that the infiltration of Polish Jews into the American zone was part of a wellorganised and positive plan, says the Associated ‘ Press correspondent in Frankfurt. These sources add that there is evidence of an underground organisation feeding Jews into the western occupation zones of Germany. They declare that there was only one substantiated case in the Polish pogrom, which was little more than a demonstration.