Evening star., 1947-03-06
Letters to The Star
One Readers Appraisal of
the Palestine Facts

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the Palestine Facts
To the Editor Of The star:
have spent the past few days gath
ering facts relating to the Palestine
issue and trying to put the pieces to-
gether SO to speak. to get con1pre-
hensive view of the situation. Briefly,
should like to sum up these facts,
leaving the conclusions to the consci-
enees of the individual readers.
/. President Truman asked for 100, 600
entrants year to Palestine before the
November election, and both Mr.. Bev IN
and Prime Minister Attlee of Britain
ignored him.
2. About two years ago Mr.. Bevin
asked American participation in a joint
.Anglo-American Commission OF IN
quiry. on the Palestine question, promis-
ing that If their decision was, unanimous
he would abide by it.
3. Almost year ago that committee
brought in unanimous report. One
of its immediate recomme endations was
the admittance into Palestine of 100.0 600
Jews.
4. Mr.. Bevin then stated that it would
. require 100000 troops for security If
such immigration was permitted and
asked America to send its troops too
America had already promised its ships,
funds and personnel for the transporta-
tion of 100000 Jews to Palestine.
5. After the Jewish War Veterans
marched to Washington and Mr.. Bevin
was promised all the American troops
he would need. Mr.. Bevin never again
mentioned American troops.
Another Investigation.
6. Mr.. Bevin then asked for another
committee to investigate the possibilities
of the immigration. This cabinet
committee" came through with the
Morrison Grady plan to divide little
Palestine into thSee parts, all under
British control America rejected this
plan and President Truman repeated his
request for the immediate transporta-
ton of 100000 Jews to Palestine. He
reiterated this request again on Yom
Kippur Eve with very straight state
ment on what had always been Ameri-
can policy in this matter
Z. BY this time, Britain had mill
tarized the country and terrorized its
population.
8. The zionists, still hopeful (there
never was such hopeful people in
history went to London in January to
try to negotiate" but Britain had no
intention of giving up its hold in
Palestine and the negotiations were a
flop.
8. Britain suddenly finds itself in the
worst kind of economic crisis. Sup
porting 100000 troops in Palestine (al-
most million throughout the Empire
and world she can't afford to feed her
own people. The manpower crisis is
acute. Even nature has taken hand
and Britons suffer the coldest winter in
their history. The people are restless.
The Labor Party is in trouble.
10. In Palestine the young patriots are
embarrassing the Great Empire. It's
troops are afraid Of sniping and guerrilla
tactics. Bevin appeals to the responsible
Jewish agency to stamp out terrorism. y
For once the agency stands up to Britain
and says it. won't turn informer on its
own people who are only rightfully
trying to throw OF the yoke Of the lion
that is trodding on them.
May Reach U. N.
II. Mr.. Bevin must stall again, and
so he says that he is considering turning
the whole matter over to the United
Nations. Mr.. Bevin, annoyed at his
failure to get American sympathy for
his high-handedness finally blurts out
the :unforgivables SANDER against the
President of the United States. Our
reactions as Americans was the only
true reaction one could have when our
President, the head of our government,
is insulted by the Foreign Minister of
another power. We have just loaned
Britain over four billion dollars. They
will soon need to ask for more We
object to supporting an unfriendly
government.
10. Legally-the United States signed a
treaty with Great Britain in 1924, in
which we support the Balfour declara-
tion-the Jewish national home, etc.,
and which clearly states that the man
datory power (Britain) can make no
change in the mandate without our
approval. Therefore the United States
Is not meddling or interfering-rather
1t is the duty of our Government to see
that the terms of the mandate are full
filled as our part of the 1924 Treaty. 4,
The mandate specifically calls for
facilitation of Jewish immigration and
land settlement with view to ultimate
self-government.
These are the facts. Personal opinions
on the subject needs these facts before
any conclusions can be drawn. par
tioularly refrain from making any per-
sonal statement on the issue for the
facts speak clearly as to what the actual
situation is.
I believe you will be doing a public
service in making these facts known.
SHIRLEY B. OI.MAN.-
Location of Freer Gallery
10 the Editor of The Star:
1t has come to my attention that in