Evening star., 1936-02-02
JEWS DEN0UNCE
REICH OPPRESSION
Palestine Conference Lays
Plans to Aid Homeless
of Race.

of the Jews, cheering personal mes
sage of encouragement from President
Roosevelt and laying plans to afford
further assistance to homeless Jews.
the National Conference for Palestine
formally opened last night at the
Willard Hotel.
Distinguished speakers from Amer
ican and British Jewry made stirring
appeals for support of the Palestine
homeland movement. Three more
sessions will be held today and the
conference will conclude tonight with
a banquet.
A delegation Of leaders from the
American Jewish Congress, who are
attending the conference, called at
the Polish Legation yesterday to con-
vey to the charge daffaires, M. Soko-
lowski, 1.-The deep concern OF the
Jewish community over the continuing
anti-Semitic discrimination in Poland
and the accompanying wave of vio-
lence directed against Jewish life and
property"
DIR. GOIdStein Speaks.
The speakers last night included
DR.. Israel Goldstein of New York, CO.
chairman of the United Palestine
Appeal; Simon Marks, London, chain
store magnate Judge Joseph A. Pad
way of Milwaukee, Joseph L. Cohen,
English economist; DR.. Stephen S.
Wise, chairman Of the Conference
Committee, and Goldie Meyerson Of
Palestine, woman leader of the Jewish
Federation of Labor in Palestine.
Sir Herbert Samuel, former British
home secretary and first high COM
missioner to Palestine. and Lord
Bearsted, head of the Shell Oil Co,
the other two members of the British
delegation, will head the list of speak
ers at today's sessions.
Summoned by the United Palestine
Appeal and AZ national Jewish organ
izations, the conference is designed to
mobilize American Jewry behind
Embarrassing effort to further the set
tlement in Palestine of a maximum
number of the Jews of Germany,
Poland and the other Central and
Eastern European lands.
Emigration Program Offered.
A program for the emigration from
Germany of 100, 900 Jews between the
ages of II and 35, at least half of
whom would go to Palestine, for which
$l5,000,0 600 would be required over four
years was presented to the conference
by Marks.
President Roosevelt sent his greet
ings in letter addressed to Rabbi
Wise.
Every American knows of the love
of Jews for the land associated with
the great beginnings Of their history,
the President wrote, land every Jew
must rejoice that this undying loyalty
has been crowned by the establish
ment of a Jewish national home rest
ing upon the sure foundations of JUS
tice and well-being for all the resi-
| dents sthereof
The American people. by the ac-
ton of Presidents and Joint resolu-
ton of Congress, have attested their
sympathy With the great purpose Of
a national Jewish home in Palestine
and will. / am persuaded, be ready
to cooperate generously with the
United Palestine Appeal which aims
to provide home for homeless Jews.
l confidently hope that the co-opera-
| ton of TIE American people will con-
/ tribute to the further progress Of the
Holy Land. which. am sure. will
continue to give light and leading
to all the world"
Two-Point Program Urged.
Chairman Goldstein Of the confer
ence calico on the delegates last
night to follow two-point program
in combating the effects of the Hitler
regime il Germany. He urged that
they protest by every available means.
moral anc economic. against the out
rage being perpetrated upon human
rights" and find a haven Of security
in other lands, particularly Palestine
| for the victims of nazidom."
Rabbi Wise speaking over Ma
tion-wide radio chain. declared the
appeal lis . union of efforts of all
American Jews in behalf of the up
building of the Jewish national home
| land in Palestine"
Denouncing the German "persecu-
| ton" Marks declared "the mission on
which we are engaged has focused the
attention of the Jewish and nom
Jewish world on the Nazi policy which
| threatens the decentralization and eX-
lie of hundreds of thousands of human
beings"
Messages from Gov Herbert H. Leh-
man of New York and DR.. S. Parkes
Cadman of the Federal Council of
Churches of Christ in America, were
read.
With regard to the resettlement Of
Palestine, DR.. Norman Gerstenfeld,
rabbi of Washington Hebrew Congre-
CATION, told the conference:
"It is the view point of the Jew
today that though there are evils in
nationalism that we must avoid. still
the rebuilding of Palestine should not
be confused with nationalism. The
Jewish people should rebuild Pales-
tine as house of refuge for the op-
pressed and as spiritual home for