The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-07

Department and on Caplto Senator Taft's and Senator Jewish migration to Palestine and creating Q commonwealth of Pal- eStine.
 Major General Hurley, who has had conferences with Arab Ruler Ibn Baud regardin, Saudi Arabia's vast oil reserves, reported to the President that the Arabs would re. volt if further Jewish migration into Palestine were permitted. Arab-J Jewish riots, he indicated, would cause trouble for British troops and might cause the Brit ish to he diverted from the second front.
 The President, already 0 bit haraSsed by HurlCy's three-hour harangue on the banefulnesS of the British, suggested that tho OK. Secretary of War report on this situation to the present Secretary of War, Henry l.. StimSon.
 Hurley did. Apparently, there was Q prompt meeting of minds between tho two Secretaries of War. StimsOn already had sent . letter t0 Senator Tom Con. COnnally, chairman of the Sem ate Foreign Relations Commit. tee, regarding Jewish migration and, after Hurley's call, he sent Chief of Staff MhFshaIl himself to testify secretly before Con- nally's committee.
 General Marshall was most emphatic in opposing the Taft. Wagner resolution. He conteuded that It's passage would be 0 cal- amity, passing this opinion on the reaction of the Arabs and the pos- sibility that British troops would have to be used to quell riots. He failed to tell the Senators that the British had so many troops in tho Palestine area that he personally had been peeved with them last summer for trans. 3eYring so many troops out of Eng land at Q time when he wanted to concentrate on Western Europe.
 However, the net result of the Hurley -MaSghall- ll-Stimson maneuv- CTS will probably be to kill the resolution regarding Palestine. Senator Taft Is reported to be somewhat irked, because he took great jains to ascertain in ad- vance that tho resolution would meet no Administration objection. HULL N-COMMITTAL
 Before 1t was introduced, Taft sent q letter to Secretary Hull ask ing his views. Since the Secretary Of State has been appointed by FDR as chairman of 6 special committee to help get Jewish refu- gees out of Axis countries, Taft felt that Hull was the appropri- ate person to ask. However, he got no response.
 Meanwhile, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland calle don Hull and asked for his views. Hull read the proposed resolution with painstaking care, then cagily re- piled:
 T cannot tell you that favor it, because the State Department can take no position in these matters."
 So, finally. Senator Taft asked his brother Charles, who works in the State Department, to as- certain Hull'S views. Charlie took the matter up in & State Depart ment meeting and got word that the Department had no objection to the resolution, whereupon Sen- ator Taft went ahead.
 But subsequently,, Assistant Sec- retary of War McCloy let the cat out of the bag to Rabbi Silver that the War Department was supposed to carry the ball for the State Department because Hull did not want to take public stand against the resolution.
 All of which has made almost
 everybody mad. While Jewish
 leaders are by no means unani.
 nous regarding Palestine, they
 are unanimous in not liking
 Government run .aFi0unds. And
 the current State Department
 Fun.arOund has got under the
 skin of both Jewish and Con gressional leaders.
 Tn Congress. there is a strong feeling that, insomuch as the bars against Jewish refugees have been let down in this and many other countries. homeless Jews should not be barred from their original home. especially in view of the money they have poured into it for irrigation and reclamation projects. These projects probably have made it possible for Pales. tine to support around 100000