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

1946

At the conclusion of World War Two, Zionist activists in America brought every possible pressure to bear upon President Harry S. Truman to endorse efforts in establishing an independent Jewish state in Palestine. One of the most forceful representations marshaled, was that the Jewish people who had lost fully a third of its numbers in the Nazi carnage must be granted a safe haven in their ancient homeland to ensure such a human tragedy never repeat itself. The present petition includes appeals to the President by Prof. Albert Einstein and by Prof. Richard J. Purcell of the Catholic University of America. Hundreds of prominent academics lent their signatures to this petition, both Jew and Gentile.