A Petition to the President of the United States, Respectfully Submitted by Members of the Faculties of American Schools of Higher Learning

(ZIONISM).

for the American Zionist Emergency Council

New York

n.d. (1945-7)

At the conclusion of World War Two, Zionist activists in America brought every possible pressure to bear upon U.S. President Harry S. Truman to endorse the establishment of the State of Israel. One of the most forceful representations marshalled, was that the Jewish people who had lost fully a third of its number in the Nazi carnage, therefore must be granted a safe haven in their ancient homeland to ensure such a human tragedy never repeat itself. The present petition is forwarded by an appeal to the President by Prof. Albert Einstein at the Institute of Advanced Studies of Princeton University, and another by Richard J. Purcell, Professor of History, Catholic University of America. Hundreds of prominent academics lent their signatures to this petition, both Jew and Gentile