PLEA TO AMERICA

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 124, 28 May 1942, Page 7

PLEA TO AMERICA

Peer Urges U.S. To Take Over Palestine Mandate BRITISH FAILURE IMPLIED Rec. 11 a.m. LONDON, May 27. -^ m r erican Jews to press the Lnitecl States Government to ?x- er j the , Palestine Mandate, Loid Wedgwood, in a broadcast to the Lnited States, said: "We want ♦ In Palestine to be armed in the certain conviction that once armed they will not surrender either to Hitler s Germany or to the British administration in Palestine. The British will never let them have arms, nor land, nor free immigration nor refuge, nor home. "They do not like the Jews. There are enough anti-Semites and CrvptoFascists still in Britain to back up the Hitler policy. There is no longer any hope from any British administration. The responsibilities of the world have lain on our shoulders long enough. It is your turn now. It is your rendezvous with destiny."

Lord Wedgwood, who is GO. was one of the four Labour members elevated to the peerage in December of last year. He was then Mr. Josiah Wedgwood, M.P. for Moddershall, Stone. He served in the last war, being appointed sub-lieutenant in trie Royal Naval Division in September, 1914. He was wounded and later promoted commander. He also served in the African war, and was for a time resident magistrate in the Transvaal# He * joined the Labour party in 1919.