Mr. Chairman. it was my privilege on April 2. to introduce H. R. 3458 to authorize a $150.000.000 grant to aid Israel in the relief and resettlement of refugees. The gentleman from Massachusetts and I introduced companion bills. My interest in this .cause goes back to 1919 when. as a member of the Massachusetts Legislature. I supported the first legislative declaration calling for the restoration of the Jewish commonwealth in Palestine. World War I had left in its wake a generation of homeless and stateless Jews. human beings. who appealed to world statesmanship for a the right to live in dignity and freedom in their own homeland.
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