Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain:
“IT IS OF IMMENSE IMPORTANCE FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF STRAEGY TO HAVE THE MUSLIM WORLD WITH US. IF WE MUST OFFEND ONE SIDE, LET US OFFEND THE JEWS RATHER THAN THE ARABS.”
Source: Sir Martin Gilbert: British Policy towards Jewish Refugees 1933 to 1946; Miriam Rothschild and John Foster Human Rights Trust