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Petition Asks Opening of Palestine

October 19, 1939
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A committee of prominent American Zionists today presented to officers of the Intergovernmental Committee petitions of 238,199 persons, for th attention of President Roosevelt, appealing to the President to seek the opening of Palestine to enlarged Jewish immigration.

The petitions were collected by the Jewish Morning Journal of New York. The delegation was headed by Louis Lipsky, vice-president of the Zionist Organization of America, and included Rabbi Isadore Breslau, director of the American Zionist Bureau, and Morris Si

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