AMERICAN JEWS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1938, Page 5

AMERICAN JEWS

PLEA FOR REOPENING OF PALESTINE MASS COLONISATION DESIRED. PROPOSED FINANCIAL ' ASSISTANCE. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. WASHINGTON, November 21. Sixty-five Jewish groups on the eastern seaboard urged President Roosevelt today to make representations to Britain to reopen Palestine. They contended that Palestine was the ideal place for mass colonisation because of Jewish expenditure there in the past 20 years. The vice-chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, Mr- Credward Israel, urged that American Jews should pay a voluntary fine of 100,000,000 dollars to aid refugees. Representative Dies announced that he was introducing a Bill under which foreign malcontents could be exchanged for Jews. He commented that one oppressed refugee was worth two disgruntled Americans. BEERSHEBA ENTERED. ALL LARGE TOWNS TAKEN FROM REBELS. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) JERUSALEM, November 21. Troops entered Beersheba today, thus completing the military reoccupation of all the large towns in Palestine formerly in the hands of the rebels. SCHOOL TEACHER DIES OF WOUNDS. (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) JERUSALEM, November 21. Rahman El Khatib, a school teacher, died of wounds. ,