The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-05
Palestine Controversy Embittered
 European Jews
 Take New Hope
 m Stofement

Washington, Oct. 5-(UP)-PreS- ident Truman's Tom Kippur plea for entry of Jews into Palestine en- bittered the controversy today but failed to budge the barriers against immigration.
 British government and Arab spokesmen sharply protested the Presidents statement. It was made | public at the White House on the day upon which begins the Jewish fast of atonement. Jewish reaction was favorable but showed an in- clination to wait for results.
 MT. Truman's statement reviewed | his efforts to open Palestine to Jewish immigration. He proposed immediate substantial entry of Jews into Palestine pending permanent adjustment of the problem He said he would seek amendment of United States immigration laws, if other countries would act similarly, to permit additional refugees to come here.
 Attlee Certainly Annoyed A spokesman for British Prime Minister Clement Attlee replied that the statement was very unfortunate and might well jeopardize the relief | of Jewish refugees. He revealed that Attlee had received the statement from MT. Truman Thursday and immediately had requested that it be held up pending further con- sultations.
 There was no effort to mask the fact that the British prime min ister was annoyed by MT. Truman's action Representative here of Arabian states were even more bit | ter.
 The Arab Office here said, in part:
 'The statement will certainly have very serious effect on the attitude of Arab and Moslem peo- pies toward America. By it's com- plete disregard of Arab opinion, which by now must be well known to the President, the statement will certainly complicate the problem of Palestine and do nothing toward solving it."
 Agency Warns Against Let-Down | A Jewish Agency spokesman here said the Agency welcomed the 1 statement and hoped for practical
 steps" to make it effective, par ticularly in regard to Jewish immi- grafton into Palestine.
 He added, however, that it might prove boomerang" which would cause the situation in Europe and Palestine to grow much worse if
 Jewish hopes were raised for a few days and then dashed.
 The Arabs here said the United States woulJ have to impose it's will upon the Arabs" if Jewish im- migration into Palestine was to be permitted in the numbers sought by MT. Truman.
 This implication that the United States would have to use force to obtain acceptance of it's objectives was supported by Arabs in London who said thousands of American troops would be necessary to make Jewish immigration into Palestine possible on the scale suggested.
 Jews Near Despair Tn Europe An informed Jewish source assert ed that an Anglo-American Inquiry Commission had been told by Brit ish officers in Palestine that three times as many British troops would be required to enforce a pro-Arab plan than a pro-JeWish program such as that backed in MT. Tru- mans statement.
 Another side of the situation was presented in dispatch from Dougald Werner, United Press staff
 correspondent in Vienna. He related how Jewish displaced persons are arriving in Vienna by the thousands from the East. They have organ
 lzed assistance in reaching the
 American sector where they are
 passed on to the American zone of occupied Germany. The Jews re-
 gard our zone as the jumping off place for Palestine. But they are plling up there in large numbers and they are beginning to despair