The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-15
JEWS IN HOLY
LAND ASSURED
PROTECTION
u. S. Saws Rights and Inter-
ests of Americans There
Will Be Upheld
By LOUIS J. SCHAEFLE ,
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. Is. (UP)
The state department yesterday
assured American Jews that the
United States will take all neces-
sary steps to protect American
rights and interests in Palestine,
despite reports that Great Britain
contemplates hating emigration
to the Holy Land.
In formal statement issued IN
response to hundreds of protest
ing letters and kilograms sent TO
the state department, United
States Jewry was informed that
the situation in strife-torn Pales-
tine is being followed closely by
officials.
Justice Louis D. Brandeis Of the
supreme court spent more than
an hour with President RooseVelt
early last night at the white house.
He refused to discuss the nature
of his visit or whether it concern
ed the Palestine situation.
"Then did you offer your reslg-
nation as an associate justice TO
the PRESIDENT" a reporter asked
Smiling, the aged Jurist oaoe
| his chauffeur to "drive on.
Another phase of the growing
refugee problem was discussed by
the most Rev. Samuel A. Stritch,
Roman Catholic bishop OF Mllwau-
kee, VINO reported to bishops meet
ing here that persecution OF tne
Catholic church by German ana
Austrian Nazis had intenslhed
since Austria became part OF the
Third Reich.
Archbishop Stritch. a member
of the Committee for Catholic
Refugees from Germany, SAID that
| his group has aided 1879 refugees
since January, 1887. among them
many professional men and "o-
men.
The state departments assur-
ance did not mention the CathollG
refugee problem, but promised
that this government will submit
it's views to the British govern
ment with respect to any changes
affecting American rights which
may be proposed in the Palestine
mandate" :,
The understanding here, the
memorandum continued, is that
the British government plans %
accord full consideration to the
partition commissions recommen-
dations before reaching a decision.
It said that no report by the
British Palestine Partition COM
mission, appointed several months
ago to decide disposition OF the
Holy Land, will be made before
the end Of. this month.
A delegation of prominent Am.
erican Jews, headed by Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise of New York; ex-
pressed their anxiety over the
situation to Secretary of State
Cordell Hull, urging him to inter-
cede with the British government
in behalf of Jewry.
The delegation told Hull that
the situation threatens to result
in a Complete reversal of the
policy of the Palestine mandate
which has been in effect for 20
years. during which great prog
ress has been made in the estab,.
lishment of Jewish national
home. .--..--.-> a
"Our plea for your intercession
is based on the clear need which
seems to have arisen for safe
guarding the maintenance of a
policy, in which the United States
has had decisive part and a deep
interest,"" the delegations state
ment said. Affirmative action, it
was said, would "tend to avert
widespread suffering in the Holy
Land and overwhelming despair
among large numbers of actual
and prospective Jewish refugees.
To escape the fate which is in
tended for them in lands of OPP
preston, these victims must look
to the national home for the Jew
ish people in Palestine as the pri-
mary avenue of hope and saliva
ton. -''
"Our plea is based. further, on
the necessity of preventing injury
to vital interest of United States
nationals whose status will have
undergone radical and perilous
change in any of the proposals
now said to be under considera-
ton by the British government, as
a substitute for the Balfour dec
laration and the Jewish national
home policy of the Palestine man.
date, go into effect. -..
Nearly 10000 United States
nationals are residents of Pales-
tine. :. These investments of life
and treasure have been made in
reliance on the permanence of the