Evening star., 1947-03-02
Zionist Plan
Flares Back
Truman Is in Middle
After Palestine
Maneuver
By Wallace r. Deuel.

President Trumans chickens have
come home to roost, on the Pales.
tine problem.
The President has now produced
the following results by his ham
ding OF American policy on the
Zionist issue:
He has embittered United States
relations with Great Britain, Amer.
ica's principal friend and potential
ally.
Mr.. Truman has reused false
hopes among world Jews.
Led on by these hopes. the Jews
have collided with the British. the
Arabs and the governments Of half
a-dozen other countries.
The Polish. the Romanian and
other anti-Semitic regimes in East
ern Europe are driving all the Jews
they can out Of their countries.
They hope to get rid Of their Jews
at somebody else's expense by fore.
ing them into Palestine or some
other area for which Britain or the
United States Is responsible,
The disappointment and the fa..,.
hopes which Mr.. Truman has reused
have turned many Jews against the
President, the Democratic Party
and the United States as whole.
Some Place Hopes in Moscow.
Some Of these Jews are now
tempted to look toward Moscow for
their last hope Of salvation and
even Of survival.
Mr.. Truman has also embittered
the whole Arab world. From Casa.
blanca to the China Sea, Arabs, too,
are turning toward Moscow.
If these tendencies 60 on long
enough and far enough they will end
with Russia in control OF the whole
Middle East.
This would cut the world in two.
1t would shut of the great East
West world highway through the
Mediterranean and the Suez Canal.
1t would also shut off America
and Britain from the huge oil re-
serves of the Middle East--the life
blood Of armies, navies and air
forces.
These developments would enor.
mously strengthen the Soviet Union
and world Communism and dras-
tically weaken the United States.
Britain and Western civilization In
general.
These are the consequences
which have resulted, and threaten
TO result, from President Trumans
attempt to play party politics with
the Zionist issue.
Republican leaders have played
and are still playing the same game.
Some Empty Promises.
Thus both Senator Robert A. Taft,
Republican. of Ohio, and Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey Of New York have
also tried to win Jewish votes by
promising Zionists even more than
Presidents Truman and Roosevelt
have promised them.
, AS James F. Byrnes recalled rue
fully, some time after becoming Sec
ryetary of State:
Somebody was always coming
around to us in the Senate and
asking us to adopt pro-Jewish
resolution on the grounds that some
fellow in New York was badly in
need Of reelection, and we always
passed it unanimously, without even
a roll call"
Neither party has ever been will
ing or able to pay of on its promises.
Both have simply made the prom.
ises-and then demanded that Brit
ain carry them out.
This bidding for the Zionist Jew
ish vote came to its greatest recent
climax just before the United States
elections last November.
British Foreign Minister Ernest
Bevin has revealed part Of the story
of what happened then.
Mr.. Truman has by-passed the
State Department on the Palestine
problem during most of his term OF
ONCE.
"Got to Help the Boss"
The President has handled the
problem personally and through
David X. Niles, one Of his-and
President, Roosevelt's - administra.
tive assistants.
We've got to help the boss" Mr..
Niles is fond of saying. He makes
it clear that he means, by this, that
the United States must indorse
Zionism in order to help win Jewish
votes for the administration.
Robert E Hannegan, Postmaster
General and chairman OF the Demo-
cratic National Committee, has also
played an important part in making
and carrying out United States poll
icy on Palestine-also with votes
in mind.
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