Evening star., 1943-03-02
1850 Bulgarian Jews
10 Go 10 Palestine
Under British Plan
Holifox Reveals Proposo|
In Message to Anti-Nozi
Rolly in New York
B, the Associated Press.

B! the Associated Press
NEW YORK, March 2-Great
Britain has completed negotia tions
with the Bulgarian government for
1000 Jewish children and 500 adults
to leave that country and 90 to
Palestine, says Viscount Halifax.
British Ambassador to the United
States.
In message last night to Stop
Hitler rally at Madison Square
Garden. the British Ambassador
described this action of his govern
ment as "a first STEP" and added
that Britain has also undertaken
to receive in Palestine, If the neces-
sary arrangements can be made, UP
to 10000 Jewish children, with a
proportion of adults, by March 81,
lo44."
Church leaders, educators, states
men and labor leaders. in speeches
and messages to the rally, called on
the United Nations to provide sane
tuary now and after the war to Jews
and to all victims OF Axis atrocities.
Pray for Nazi Victims.
The meeting was sponsored by the
American Jewish Congress. the
American Federation of Labor. the
Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tions. the Church Peace Union and
the Free World Association.
Climax of the rally came when
the audience rose and joined in a
mass recital of Kaddish, the Hebrew
prayer for the dead, for the victims
of NaZi maSsacres.
Speaking from Washington by
telephone. Supreme Court Justice
William o. Douglas asserted that
the foundation of our society is the
minority"
Recognition of the smallest mi
nority is written in blood as we'll as
ink in our Bill of Rights" he declared
That precious document represents
a great historic struggle to make
free It is the cornerstone on which
our cultural and spiritual values
rest" r
Wendell L. Willkie, 1910 Republi-
can Presidential candidate, said in
q message that practical measures
must be formulated and carried
out Immediately to save as many
Jews as possible, particularly from
Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania"
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, in tele-
phone message from Albany, as
serted that ''it is our duty to frus-
trate to the limit OF our capacity the
savage purpose" Of the Nazis.
In speech broadcast from Lon
don, Sir William Beveridge, author
Of the Beveridge plan for social Sc
curity in Great Britain, said the
problem Of finding refuge for the
prosecuted Jews of Europe tested
the humanity. the power to act to-
gether and the ability to act quickly
Of the peoples of the United Nations.
DR.. William Temple, Archbishop
Of Canterbury, and Arthur Cardinal
Hinsley, Archbishop OF Westminster.
who is gravely i'll in London. also
sent messages.
Among the speakers we're Sir
Norman Angel, Noble prize winner
and member of the Executive Board
Of the Free World Association:
William Green, president of the
American Federation *of Labor;
James B. Carey, secretary-treasurer
Of the Centretss OF industrial Or
ganizations; the Right Rev. Henry |
St. George Tucker, Presiding Bishop
OF the Episcopal Church in the |
United States DR.. Henry A. Atkin-.
son, general secretary of the Church |
Peace Union; DR.. George N. Shuster, !
president of Hunter College; Her.
man Shulman, chairman of the
special committee of the American
Jewish Congress on the European |
Situation, and Rabbi, Meier Berlin,
representing the Palestine Jewish |
COmmunitv