Speech #780026499

This error. too. should be corrected. The Jewish National Committee should be recognized by the United Nations. and should be given a place and a voice in the councils of that group. The committee would represent the interests of the stateless and refugee Jews of the world. and the interests of the future Jewish state. Through this committee. the Jewish people should b acknowledged an equal member of the United Nations. Our Department of State ought to urge the formation and recognition of such a committee. and. if necessary. it should offer its good offices in bringing together the interested Jewish groups for the purpose of forming it. Many Jewish citizens of the United States will undoubtedly lend their sym"pathy and support to the work of this committee. just as our population of Irish. Czech. and Polish origin have taken an interest and have lent their support to the committees formed at various times on behalf of those nationalities previous to their attainment of statehood. But it should be clear. in keeping with these precedents. that our Jewish citizens would not be affected themselves by the formation of such a committee. and that the committee would not claim to represent anyone other than the Jews already in Palestine. and those refugee andstateless Jews who wish to proceed to Palestine. and to constitute a Jewish state. The forthcoming transformation of Palestine. including Transjordan. into a Jewish state. should be proclaimed and mutually agreed upon by the United Nations as one of their common aims. Immediate agreements are to be entered with the Jewish National Committee. representing provisionally the interests of the Jewish state and with all interested governments. regarding(a) Facilities for the largescale voluntary emigration of Jewish refugees. stateless Jews. and Jewish victims of discrimination or persecution. to Palestine. with control over the admission of these immigrants vested exclusively .in the authorities of the Jewish state. (b) The assurance of full civic and religious rights to the nonJewish inhabitants of Palestine. both during the transitional period. and later. when they shall have become a numerical minority of the population. and (c) An irternationally supervised regime for the holy places in Palestine. Upon formation of the Jewish state. these agreements are to be supplemented by treaties to which the Jewish state should be a party. Again. it should be clear that the formation of the Jewish state ought not to interfere with the status of Jewish citizens of other countries.