APPEAL FOR RESCUE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 June 1943, Page 4

APPEAL FOR RESCUE

OF EUROPEAN JEWS THREATENED BY HITLER WITH EXTERMINATION. MILLIONS ALREADY MURDERED. (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, June 11. The establishment of Palestine as a Jewish commonwealth within the framework of the British Commonwealth of Nations is urged by Dr. Michael Traub, official delegate of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Dr. Traub who is concluding a goodwill mission to Australia, leaves soon for New Zealand, and will later go to America. In Australia, he has delivered hundreds of lectures to Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. When the war began, there were about 7,000.000 Jews in the European countries now under Axis rule, ho said in a farewell interview here. Up to the end of last year. 2,000,000 of them had been murdered. Hundreds of thousands more had been murdered since. Should the announced policy of Hitler continue unchecked, it was not impossible that, by the time victory was won, the large part of the Jewish population of Europe would have been exterminated. Thus, between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe were in danger of annihilation, and action to rescue them should start immediately. The present population of Palestine was 1,500,000 Jews and Arabs. Three or four million more Jews could be settled there, provided they were granted the right to apply their pioneering abilty in colonising the country on a modern basis. The establishment of this centre would not only solve the problem of Jewish homelessness, but would also be a vital constructive factor in cultural and economic revival of the Near East.