Evening star., 1939-01-15
Palestine
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Palestine, Mr.. Masaryk. said Pales-
tines future is not exclusively an
English question.
1T has great political ard moral
significance for the world" he re-
marked. "All of us democrats must
band together if further inroads
into democracy are to be prevented.
1t is your responsibility and my re-
sponsibility to help Palestine-the
beacon of hope, the ray of light and
the hope for many innocent, pa
thetic wanderers on the byways OF
Europe.
I'VE must help them and by help
ing them strengthen international
well-being, decency and the glorious
idea of liberty
Secured S2,50O,0O0.
Earlier, Mr.. Masaryk discussed in
an interview how he had persuaded
the Czech government, as one of
his last official acts. to permit the
transfer of $2,5OO,0OO for refugee
sediment in Palestine. This will
enable 5000 Jews to leave Czecho-
Slovakias for the new Jewish home
land.
With more than 800 delegates
from 800 communities in "A States
expected to attend. the conference
also heard last night that Palestine
is ready to receive 100000 German
Jews this year.
DR.. Silver dismissed schemes of
settlement in Africa and South
America as cruel deception" and
asserted that it is essential that
Jewish leadership should make it
Enthusiastically clear to all the gov
ernments of Europe that it is i'm
possible to evacuate 100000 Jews;
that there are no countries pre-
pared to receive them. no colonies
available for their settlement and
no financial means at hand for
effectuating such a program even
if it were feasible
Most Jews in Central and Eastern
Europe must remain where they are,
DR.. Silver said. and their problems
must ultimately be solved along with
the entire minority problems of
Europe.
Ransom" Plan Assailed.
He assailed the ransom" plan,
which he said was suggested by
Nazi representative to the Intergov-
ernmental Committee on Refugees
as ''the highest refinement of hu-
initiation for the Jews and a blanket
invitation to other countries with
anti-Semitic leanings to mulct the
Jews and intensity expulsion ac-
tivities."
Arranging for the emigration of
German Jews by compelling Jews
living in other lands to purchase
large quantities of German-made
goods is the speaker said, "tanta-
mount to placing a premium upon
brutality and rewarding the most
inhuman oppressors of our people"
He also warned against the con-
tinued search for vacant and un-
explored territories for Jewish mass
settlement" and said that Palestine,
the logical haven for Jews, has the
resources and capacity to absorb
maximum number for whom homes
must be found.
Discussing the same question, Dr.
Stephen S. Wise, chairman of the
Executive Committee of the United
Palestine Appeal, called on the world
to prevent Nazi Germany from send
ing it's Jews out of the country as
'pauperized statesmen OF German
made goods.
DR.. Wise said countries inclined to
extend hospitality to the Jewish emf
grants must insist that they be per-
mitted to bring with them their
property and savings so that they
will have an opportunity to reha-
bilitate themselves elsewhere.
More Laborers Needed.
Joseph Baratz, Palestine leader,
told the conference there is a great
demand for additional Jewish labor
to take care of growing economic
and cultural needs of the Jewish
homeland.
land.
Mr.. Baratz blamed Nazi and Fascst
propaganda as among the chief fac
tors responsible for Arab terrorism.
Others on last nights program
were Louis Lipsky and DR.. Israel
Goldstein of New York, co-chairmen
of the appeal, and Leon Gellman,
president of the Mizrachi organiza-
tion of America. Robert M. Bern
stein of Philadelphia presided.
DR.. Silver, DR.. Wise and DR.. Gold