The Joint Secretariat, Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry Jerusalem. Gentlemen, After going over the transcript of my evidence before the committee on Friday afternoon, I take the opportunity of clarifying my reply to Mr. Buxton when he asked me whether I thought president Truman’s proposal of 100,000 immigration certificates for this year was reasonable figure. I […]
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 […]
“The intensification of the traffic in “illegal” immigrants, which was resumed on substantial scale toward the end of 1945, made it impossible for the Administration (e.g. U.S./ Great Britain) fully to apply its system of preferential categories. In the period between the 15th of December 1945, and the 14th of March 1947, no less than […]
“BRITISH FOREIGN SEC. OF STATE EARNEST BEVIN WARNS JEWS ABOUT IMMIGRATION TO PALESTINE: “DON’T TRY TO GET TOO MUCH TO THE HEAD OF THE QUEUE!” Source: London News Chronicle November 14, 1945
“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. […]
King Ibn Saud and Churchill meet at the Fayyum Oasis, Egypt, 17 February 1945. Between them is Ibn Saud’s interpreter: to the right, Churchill’s wartime ADC, Lieutenant-Commander ‘Tommy’ Thompson. Source: Martin Glibert, Churchill and the Jews: A Life Long Friendship; HMSO/British Ministry Of Information, Middle East
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 […]
“Churchill (E.g. prime minister of Great Britain) himself was convinced of the need to delay any decision on Palestine, not only until the successful conclusion of the European war, but more specifically, at least until after the American presidential elections due to be held in November 1944.” Source: Palestine: Retreat From The Mandate, by Michael […]
“The views of the Chiefs of Staff were sought frequently by the Cabinet Committee appointed in July 1943, to consider a long term solution for the Palestine problem. General Wavell, not normally a member of the War Cabinet, was invited to give his views, based upon his long experience of Palestine and of the Middle […]
“EVEN IF ONE ACCEPTS EDEN’S CONTENTION THAT TRANSPORTATION WAS NOT AVAILABLE, CAN ANYONE DOUBT THAT JEWS WOULD HAVE WALKED, IF NECESSARY, ACROSS THE BALKANS AND OUT THROUGH TURKEY? The hard fact of the matter is that despite the excuse used constantly throughout World War II that the rescue of Jews was impossible because of the […]