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In 1922 the United States Government gave formal approval to the declaration. and on December 3. 1924. there was adopted the AmericanBritish Palestine Mandate Convention. which constituted a treaty respecting the rights of American citizens in Palestine. In that treaty was embodied the text of the Palestine mandate. which was awarded to Great Britain by the League of Nations. thus giving us a direct interest in the administration of the Holy Land. � But within recent months action has been taken by the British Government which has aroused indignation among the Jews of the United States. as it has among all lovers of fair play and respectors of sacred promises. Last month the British Government suspended Jewish immigration into Palestine on purely political grounds. This conclusion is inescapable. inasmuch as the 3.300 immigration certificates that were withdrawn had previously been approved as economically justified by the high coinmissioner of Palestine. Within recent weeks the British Goverinent issued a white paper. in which it indorsed a majority of the conclusions of the commission of inquiry. headed by Sir Walter Shaw. which was sent to Palestine to investigate the riots of last August. By suspending Jewish immigration into Palestine. Great Britain nullifies the mandate and destroys the very foundations of the Jewish national home. For us in America the situation in Palestine is of particular concern.