Speech #710220640

Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. in the closing days of the session I rise to protest the suspension of Jewish immigration into Palestine as a violation of the Balfour declaration. and a further violation of the Zionist resolution adopted by the Congress of the United States some eight years ago. It must be selfevident to Jews and nonJews alike that suspension of Jewish immigration means that the homeland which was promised can not be attained. and that the policy of establishing such a homeland depends from beginning to the end on permitting Jewish immigration into the land of their fathers.. In 1922 the Sixtyseventh Congress of the United States passed unanimously a joint resolution " favoring the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." which I had the honor of introducing in the House of Representatives. That resolution placed the stamp of approval not only of Congress but of the American people on the agelong aspirations of world Jewry for the rebuilding of their ancestral homeland in Palestine.