The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-07

diation of the sanctity of cove- naI1ts."
 The Council is spokesman for all major Zionist organizations in the United States: the Zionist Organ ization of America, Hadassah, Mig rachi and Poale Zion. pr. Silver, spiritual leader of The Temple, in Cleveland, recently assumed politi- cal leadership of the Zionist move- ment and his call for war on the Palestine White Paper is his first declaration of policy,
 Proposing an incessant and un- compromising drive to set aside the ''manifestly unjust and illegal' Chamberlain policy during the seven months which remain before it becomes completely effective, pr. Silver declared that American Jews will appeal to the United States Government to seek its suspension on four grounds;
 "l. The solemn covenant con- tained in the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate for Palestine is folunded on the inalienable right of the Jewish people, based on an un- broken historic connection, to re- constitute their national home in Palestine.
 "2. By international Convention of 1924, Great Britain may make no changes in the status of Palestine without the consent of the United States Government. The White Pa- per Is a complete reversal of Pales- tines status and is therefore a clear violation of Great Brintain's cove- ! nant with the United States.
 a. It is repugnant to the con- cept of the Four Freedoms that Pal estine should become the one land on earth, outside dominated nations, where, by specific legisla- ton, Jews are to be denied admis- sion.
 "4. Tn the face of the disasters that have befallen the Jews of Flu rope under Hitler, 1t Is unconscion- able that they should be deprived of the hope of eventually finding peace and freedom in the future Jewish Commonwealth.
 TO close the doors of Palestine by implementing the White Paper would be to deny the last avenue of escape for the trapped and help less victims of NaA terror" Dr. Silver said. Tt would mock the dead and scorn the living.
 We have every hope that with the sympathy of President Roose- welt and Prime Minister Churchill, and with the active support of freedom loving men everywhere in the democratic world, this blow to the Jewish people and to funda- mental human justice will be averted."
 He recalled that the White Paper was the climax of the disastrous appeasement policy" of the Cham berlain government-under its terms Jewish population becomes a perm- anent minority in Palestine next April-that the White Paper was condemned by MT. Winston Churchill when 1t was first issued and that 1t was held by the Perma- nent Mandates Commission to be a violation of the Mandate under which Great Britain administers Palestine as the Jewish National Home.
 The text of pr. silver's state ment follows:
 ''The American Zionist Emergency Council calls for the immediate abandonment of the White Paper policy, due to go into effect in April, l944. This document is so manifest ly unjust and illegal that we feel confident that we shall have the whole-hearted cooperation of all American citizens, Christians and Jews, in appealing for its termina- , ton.
 The White Paper erects an illegal wall about Palestine. It was issued in May, 1889. It was the climax of the disastrous appeasement policy of the Chamberlain government, policy which ushered in the second World War. By its terms, Jewish immigration into Palestine would be completely suspended next April, all sales of land to Jews would be prohibited except in a tiny coastal area, and the Jewish population would be frozen into a permanent minority in their won National Home.
 "The White Paper was condemned by MT. Winston Churchill in the House of Commons in 1889 as a breach and repudiation' of the Bal four Declaration which promised Palestine as a Jewish National Home. Later, that year, 1t was char acterized by the Permanent Man dates Commission, the one interna- tionA body which had the authority to judge its validity and legality. as violation of the Mandate under woich Great Britain administers me Jewish National Home.
 The era of appeasement was end ca when 1t was recognized that sub- mission to injustice could only lead to further injustice. We fight this war so that justice. rather than ex- pediency, shall determine the fate of peoples. But in Palestine annease- ment continues and the Jewish peo- ple is there to be sacrificed to that AAscIeulteu policy.
 We appeal to the United States Government to seek suspension of the White Paper. Our claims are based on four grounds:
 ~I. The solemn covenant con- tatned in the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate for Palestine is founded on the inalienable right of the Jewish people, based on an un- broken historic connection, to re- constitute their National Home fin Palestine.
 s2. By international Convention Of 1924, Great Britain may make no changes in the status of Palestine without the consent of the United States Government The White Pa- per Is a complete reversal of Pales- fsne's status and is therefore a clear violation of Great Britain's coven- ant with the United states.
 ~3. It la repugnant t0 the con-