Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, Massachusetts

              
Radio Address by Cong, fed Gos&ett
on "Pro and Con" April *£§^JL3l«
PARTITITION OF PALESTINE
Most of you know that on last November 29, the United Nations'
Assembly, largely aa a result of American pressure, recommended that Palestine
be partitioned, and that a sovereign Jewish nation be carved out of the mandated territory. Fortunately our representative in the Security Council
reversed America* s position and the recommended partition has not been consummated. However, the cry for partition goes on.
Let us, therefore, examine a few facts. Who are the Jews that demand
partition? Do they have any rights to partition. Would partition: benefit
them or anyone else?
A campaign for a national^home for Jews has been carried on for many
years by a,world wide organization of Zionists. Zionism is perhaps a natural
growth. We all know that the Jews have been maligned and persecuted, Anti-
Semitism has been a curse and a disease. It was Anti-Semitism that gave a
mad paperhanger a sordid vehicle on which to create the Nazi Party and ride
to power in Germany.  The Nazi persecution of the Jews is of course the
blackest page in modern history - a page that must not be repeated here or
elsewhere.
Let's attribute worthy motives to the Zionists. Let's assume that
their clever, militant, aggressive, sometimes lawless, campaign for a Jewish
nation is a form of escapism; a desire to set up a city of refuge for oppressed
Jews. Is there any need for such a refuge? Would not the creation of a Jewish
state defeat this objective? According to Rabbi Bernstein, Advisor to General
Clay on Jewish affairs, in recent testimony before the House Committee on
Immigration, there are now some eleven-million Jews in the world, distributed
as follows: Almost six million in America; some 500,000 in Austria; less