The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-27

all over the world is the wide- spread, immediate concern in re- gard to the British White Paper of 1889. This official document having taken cognizance of the tense situation created by two conflicting nationalist aspirations, attempts a resolution of the prob lem by proposals that include the stoppage of immigration of Jews into Palestine after a fixed quota of immigrants has been exhausted and restrictions on their further acquisition of land in that coun- try.
 We of the American Council for Judaism record our unquaI- fled opposition to those provisions. In behalf of the substantial sec- ton of American Jews whose views on Jewish problems coincide with ours, we petition our govern ment to use its best offices to pre- vail upon the British government not to proceed with so pre1udlcial and unjust a policy.
 We base our attitude on this fundamental fact: that proposals which exclude Jews, as Jews, from right of entry and restrict Jews, as Jews, from the acquisition of land, do violence to the funda- mental concept of democratic equality and thus to the very purposes and ideals to which the United Nations are pledged.
 The American Council for Jud- aism is dedicated to the view that Jews, a religious community, shall have, as of right and not on suf- ferance, full equality all over the world. AS stated in our Declara- tion of Principles For our fellow Jew we ask only this: equality Of rights and obligations with their fellow nationals" This means equality in the countries in which we live and choose to remain; equality to return to those lands from which Jews have been for cibly driven; equality to migrate wherever there is an opportunity for migration.
 We ask for no special privileges for Jews anywhere in the world. We will resist to the utmost the imposition of any disabilities on Jews anywhere in the world. There is no compromise on this basic demand.
 The tragic plight of Jews in various parts of the world is the consequence of the breakdown or inadequate implementation of the democratic concept which accords equality of rights and expects equality of obligations. Hope for postwar Jews and, indeed, for all mankind is that inequalities which have obtained in the past shall be permanently removed; and that national and interna- tional provisions and sanctions will make impossible continua- ton or revival of differential treatment. Yet this very objective, for which in part this war is being fought, is violated in the White Paper.
 There is yet time to correct this injustice and to reaffirm in ring ing terms the principle of equality of opportunity. Sympathy for the victims of NaZi terror calls for the cancellation of so grievous discrimination. Fidelity to the traditions of democracy and equality which animate the Brit ish people, the American people and freedom loving peoples ev- erywhere, calls for the abrogation of a document that projects into the future the very evils and in- equities against which the whole civilized world has risen in arms.
 We are not unmindful of the nationalist conflict that led to the issuance of the White Paper. Our Statement of Principles declared, "We believe that the intrusion of Jewish national statehood has been a deterrent in Palestine's ability to play na even greater role in offering a haven for the oppressed, and that without the insistence upon such statehood, Palestine would today be harbor- ing more refugees from Nazi ter ror."'
 The part played by Jewish na- tionalism, by the Zionist conten- ton for political power. is made clear in the very White Paper that we oppose. Those who read the White Paper in it's entirety will find the record of long his- tory of controversy deriving from nationalist claims. although the British government time and again, made 1t clear that ma tional home" was not synonymous with a Jewish National State. Tn the fact of such declarations, Zionists extended rather than modified their demands that the rights of Jews in Palestine be based upon acceptance of a so- called "Jewish State". This was