...It was estimated that of more than five million Jews in Hitler-controlled Europe, not more than two and a half millions had survived, Mrs Archibald Silverman, a visitor from USA, and representative of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, said yesterday...
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It was estimated that of more than five million Jews in Hitler-controlled Europe, not more than two and a half millions had survived, Mrs Archibald Silverman, a visitor from USA, and representative of the
Jewish Agency for Palestine, said yesterday at a late afternoon party at Menzies Hotel, at which she met representatives of the Press.
Mr S. Wynn, chairman of the Zionist Council of Victoria, and members of the committee were hosts.
The Jews salvaged out of Europe were in concentration or internment camps in countries of the Western Hemisphere, some at Kingston, Jamaica, and others in various States of South America, They were aliens from unfriendly countries in strict legal sense, and though great sympathy had been expressed at their treatment, only a few countries had welcomed these aliens as citizens.
Australia had been one of the welcoming countries, and more than 7,000 of Australia's quota of 15,000
had already reached here. So the remainder, often brilliant and inventive people, who would be an asset anywhere, languished in camps. In these circumstances, Mrs Silverman said; the question "Where shall My people go?" became one the world must answer before there could be lasting, peace. These Jews were a world problem, and the need to open Palestine to them as a national home became a pressing question in world politics.
Mrs Silverman traversed the various reasons why Jews from Central Europe would not return to their
countries of origin. She also outlined the successful Jewish settlement in Palestine, where, in her opinion, they could live amicably with the 453,000 Arabs, once Nazi propaganda ceased to stir the Arabs against them.
It was estimated that of more than five million Jews in Hitler-controlled Europe, not more than two and a half millions had survived, Mrs Archibald Silverman, a visitor from USA, and representative of the
Jewish Agency for Palestine, said yesterday at a late afternoon party at Menzies Hotel, at which she met representatives of the Press.
Mr S. Wynn, chairman of the Zionist Council of Victoria, and members of the committee were hosts.
The Jews salvaged out of Europe were in concentration or internment camps in countries of the Western Hemisphere, some at Kingston, Jamaica, and others in various States of South America, They were aliens from unfriendly countries in strict legal sense, and though great sympathy had been expressed at their treatment, only a few countries had welcomed these aliens as citizens.
Australia had been one of the welcoming countries, and more than 7,000 of Australia's quota of 15,000
had already reached here. So the remainder, often brilliant and inventive people, who would be an asset anywhere, languished in camps. In these circumstances, Mrs Silverman said; the question "Where shall My people go?" became one the world must answer before there could be lasting, peace. These Jews were a world problem, and the need to open Palestine to them as a national home became a pressing question in world politics.
Mrs Silverman traversed the various reasons why Jews from Central Europe would not return to their
countries of origin. She also outlined the successful Jewish settlement in Palestine, where, in her opinion, they could live amicably with the 453,000 Arabs, once Nazi propaganda ceased to stir the Arabs against them.
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