Evening star., 1940-01-08
Conference Ended;
U. 5. JewrySeeks
Palestine Fund
Murphy, Duff Cooper
And French Envoy
Address Sessions

Leaders of American Jewry turned
today to the task of raising millions
Of dollars for the support Of Pales-
tine. the past, present and future Of
which was discussed at q week -end
conference here Of the United Pal
estine Appeal.
The conference, which. opened
Saturday at the Mayfiower Hotel,
closed last night and the $500 reg
istered delegates were returning to
their homes in 40 States today with
the knowledge that financial sup
port from Americans represents the
great hope for alienation Of suffer-
ing among European Jews at pres
ent.
The session yesterday featured an
appeal for religious tolerance, deliv-
cred by Attorney General Frank
Murphy, newly appointed to the
Supreme Court; an admission by
Alfred Duff Cooper, former English
cabinet minister, that British policy
in Palestine has failed because of
contradictory promises; pledge
by the French Ambassador, Count
Rene D. de Saint-Quenin, that his
government would try to do better
by the refugees within its borders,
and pleas by Jewish leaders for sup
port In this country of the Pales-
tine Appeal.
Murphy Addresses Conference.
Frank Murphy, Supreme Court
nominee, told the conferees yester-
day afternoon that the worlds
staggering apostles of force and
violence are methodically and with
premeditation laboring to bring to
the United States the same condi-
tions of group hatred and civil war
that have destroyed the peace of
Europe"
Americas mission, however, he
said, is not the propagation Of hate.
Our mission is that of helping to
prove that only in peace and BROTH
erhood will men find happiness on
this earth. Our mission is to show
that by reasonable and peaceful
means, men of different natures can
build a common security in which
justice and liberty are denied to
none
Recalling that the America of
today came into existence because
"harried and homeless people
sought the blessings of peace and
freedom, Mr.. Murphy told the
Jewish conference leaders: I'VE
sympathize the more with this effort
Of yours to create in Palestine a
haven of refuge and a center of
culture where your kith and kin,
free from oppression and persecu-
ton, can find life and peace in the
land of their forefathers."
DR.. Duff Cooper. former first lord
OF the admiralty, speaking at a
luncheon meeting, freely admitted
the unworkability of British policy
toward Palestine, declaring his
country's policy had been to show
no favoritism to either Arab or Jew.
This policy has failed" he said,
"and although, no doubt, mistakes
have been made, 1 am inclined to
think that the cause of failure has
not been the clumsiness of admins
traitors. but the fact that the policy
itself was unworkable.
Everybody likes to think them
selves unbiased, but in these par
ticular circumstances, bias, upon one
side or the other, is essential to sue
cess. Therefore, the only solution
now possible is to change the policy
and either to support the Arab re-
sistance to the Zionist invasion of
Palestine or else to support the
Zionists.
contradictory promises were, no
doubt, given to both sides in the
stress of the World War. During 20
years efforts have been made to
fulfill those promises. The failure
Of those efforts has diminished their
validity.
The French Ambassador, who
fought in the Holy Land during the
World War and who entered Pales-
tine with Lord Allenby, said one of
the Franco British war aims was
to put an end to the refugee prob
lem.
THE suppression of the problem
of political refugees Is foremost and
this is to be achieved through the
defeat of the regime that created