Evening star., 1944-04-05
Letters to The Star
Expects President to Warn
Britain in Behalf of Jews.

To the Editor of The Star:
The White Paper, issued by Great
Britain, prohibiting the return of the
Jews to their homeland and DESTROYING
the hope cherished by the Jewish peo-
pie for the past 1000 years, became ef-
fectlve April /.
But on March 9 the President au-
thorized DR.. Abba Hillel Silver and DR..
Stephen S. Wise to say: The American
Government has never given its ap-
proval to the White Paper of 1889"
In 1924, a covenant was signed be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain. affecting the interests of Pales-
tine. There is clause in this cove
nant, stating that no change shall be
made in the status of the Palestine
mandate without the approval of the
United States Government. It there
fore is understandable that if the White
Paper voids the intent and purpose of
the mandate and if the United States
Government did not give it's approval
to it, the White Paper properly could
not have gone into effect April l. 1t
is incumbent on the President or his
Secretary of State to advise Great Brit
ain of this fact
The President in his authorized state
ment to DR.. Silver and DR.. Wise fur
ther stated that he "is happy that the
doors of Palestine are today open for
Jewish refugees" But even as the
President spoke, and before the COM
plete closing of the doors of Palestine
to Jews, immigration seriously was re-
stricted. The quotas allowed by Great
Britain, even including the bonus" 75,-
600 additional entry certificates issued
IN the past five years, were tragically
short OF the numbers required to save
the Jewish refugees from Hitler's Eu-
rope.
On several occasions tie President
warned Hitler against his policy of ex-
termination of the Jews. A few days
ago he warned Hitlers satellite coun-
tries that in the event of their occupa-
tlon by Hitler, they should hide and
project the Jews. The lives of tens
OF thousands of Jews who found refuge
IN Hungary and other satellite coun-
tries would have been saved, and other
hundreds of thousands of Jews would
have been saved from the tortures of
HltIers concentration camps, if these
Jews had been allowed to enter Pales-
tine We therefore feel that Great
Britain, because she is responsible for
the closing OF the doors of Palestine to
these victims, is an accessory to their
suffering and death. We expected and
we still expect that President Roosevelt
Will warn Great Britain that in the
name of justice it is her duty to make
good her pledge to the remaining VIC
TINS and to the Jewish people at large.
1t is astonishing that the British gov
ernment exerts so much influence on
the leaders Of our Army in regard to
Jewish immigration into Palestine.
Ihose that know the facts state en-
phatically that no Arab uprisings against
the Jews in Palestine would have oc-
Cured If they had not been melted bv
British anti-Jewish colonial officials.
This act of Great Britain reminds lis
OF the laws of discrimination against
the Jews in Russia in the time of Car
Nicholas II. Great Britain DEGREES that
every one has right to enter Pales-
tine except Jews. This is not in accord
with democracy and is against the spirit
OF the Atlantic Charter.
DIR. H. PROTECTOR,