“The meeting in Washington with Eden (e.g. Anthony Eden British Foreign Secretary) dealt a crushing blow to the American Jewish leadership, as is reflected in the following description of the reaction of the Joint Emergency Committee when Rabbi Steven Wise and Proskauer reported back to it: “Over the entire meeting hung the pall of Mr. […]
“Winant (e.g. the American ambassador to Great Britain) complied immediately but two more weeks passed before the British responded. Their (e.g. the Foreign Office) reply, finally delivered on December 15, showed that the economic-warfare argument had been a pretext which the British now realized was not going to stop the Treasury Department (e.g. Headed by […]
MURDER! SIR HAROLD MAC MICHAEL Known as High Commissioner for Palestine WANTED for MURDER OF 800 REFUGEES DROWNED IN THE BLACK SEA ON THE BOAT … “STRUMA”
“I CANNOT SPEAK AS AN ARAB, NOR CAN I SPEAK FOR THE ARABS, BUT AS A MEMBER OF THIS HOUSE I DO FEEL I HAVE A DUTY IMPOSED ON ME, AND THEREFORE I AM A TRUSTEE, NOT ONLY FOR THE JEWS, BUT FOR 90,000,000 MOSLEMS UNDER THE BRITISH FLAG WHO AT THIS TIME ARE ALL […]
Phillip Noel Baker: “THAT THIS HOUSE REGRETS THAT, DISREGARDING THE EXPRESSED OPINION OF THE PERMANENT MANDATES COMMISSION THAT THE POLICY CONTAINED IN THE WHITE PAPER OF MAY 1939 ON PALESTINE WAS INCONSISTENT WITH THE TERMS OF THE MANDATE, AND WITHOUT THE AUTHORITY OF THE COUNCIL OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS, HIS MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT HAVE AUTHORIZED […]
In February 1940, the government promulgated land transfers regulations under which the country was divided into three zones. In the largest of these zones, all transfers of land to persons other that Palestinian Arabs were prohibited, except, where certain specific conditions obtain with the permission of high commissioner. In the second zone, Palestinian Arabs were […]
The League of Nations The Permanent Mandates Commission Criticizes The White Paper of May 1939: “IT SHOULD ALSO BE REMEMBERED THAT THE COLLECTIVE SUFFERINGS OF ARABS AND JEWS ARE NOT COMPARABLE, SINCE VAST SPACES IN THE NEAR EAST, FORMERLY THE ABODE OF NUMEROUS POPULATIONS AND THE HOME OF A BRILLIANT CIVILIZATION, ARE OPEN TO THE […]
“GANDHI’S MESSAGE TO JEWRY ― PALESTINE BELONGS TO THE ARABS” By a staff correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor London, March 3―Mohandas K. Gandhi who, according to Bombay dispatches, today started a hunger strike to induce the native ruler of the State of Rajkot, in the northwest corner of India, to give his people “a […]
Lord Halifax was informed by the Private Secretary, Sir Alexander Hardings, while the London Conference was still in session, that ‘The King has heard from Lord Gort that a number of Jewish refugees from different countries were surreptitiously getting into Palestine, and he is glad to think that steps are being taken to prevent these […]
In a telegram which was to set the pattern for future British policy, Sir Reginald Hoare, the Minister in Bucharest, informed MacDonald that, in spite of these instructions: ‘I have little doubt that this Exodus of Jews will continue… We must ourselves take effective police and naval measures to prevent the smuggling of unauthorized refugees […]