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In the summer of 1946, the inflow of “illegal Jewish” immigrants reached such dimensions that it was no longer possible to accommodate them in camps in Palestine. It was therefore decided in August, that future shiploads would be transferred on arrival to British ships and taken to camps in Cyprus. Source: The Political History of […]
The High Commissioner For Palestine Announced That, Within The Interim Quota Of 1,500 A Month: Preference will be given to those European Jews who have a special claim, such as those to whom the Palestine government have already undertaken obligations, and relatives in Europe of Jews already established in Palestine. ‘ILLEGAL’ IMMIGRANTS WILL OF COURSE […]
“When the Second World War came to an end in 1945, it was not possible for the Mandatory (e.g. Great Britain) power to give full effect to the policy set out in the White Paper of 1939. The League of Nations, to which that document was to have been submitted for approval, no longer existed. […]
In Gen. George S. Patton’s handwritten journal, Patton, who oversaw the Displaced Person operations for the United States, seethed after reading Harrison’s findings, which he saw ― quite accurately ― as an attack on his own command. “Harrison and his ilk believe that the Displaced Person is a human being, which he is not, and […]
Faced with complaints by outside Jewish groups about conditions of “abject misery,” President Harry S. Truman sent a former immigration official, Earl Harrison, to Europe to inspect the camps. His findings were blistering. The survivors “have been ‘liberated’ more in a military sense than actually,” Harrison wrote Truman in the summer of 1945. “As matters […]
“Roosevelt assured Ibn Saud that he would support … ‘no action that would prove hostile to the Arab people.” Source: Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict 1881-2001, By Benny Morris; Schoenbaum, David. The United States and the State of Israel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993
“Late in July, the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe wrote President Roosevelt calling for bombing the deportation railways and gas chambers. The letter emphasized that the railroads were also used for military traffic and that an attack on Auschwitz could open the way for inmates to escape and join the resistance […]
The British War Cabinet’s Committee on Refugees declined to pursue a possible arrangement for the exodus of large numbers of Jews from Nazi Europe ‘PARTLY BECAUSE IT COULD LEAD TO AN OFFER TO UNLOAD AN EVEN GREATER NUMBER OF JEWS ON OUR HANDS.’ Source: Wyman, David. The Abandonment of the Jews. P 98-100; New York […]
“THE WHITE HOUSE, UNDER PRESSURE FROM ARABIST OFFICIALS (E.G. STATE DEPARTMENT), PERSUADED CONGRESS TO WITHDRAW A JOINT RESOLUTION CALLING ON BRITAIN TO RESCIND THE WHITE PAPER AND SUPPORTING A JEWISH STATE. But, at the same time, Roosevelt assured the Jews that ‘full justice will be done [after the war] to those who seek a Jewish […]
“A group of senior aides to Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. Uncovered a pattern of attempts by the State Department to obstruct rescue opportunities and block the flow of holocaust information to the United States. They drafted the following report, which Morgenthau used to warn President Roosevelt that the refugee issue had become ‘a boiling […]