Spain. Portugal. Eire. and Turkeythat they will be fully compensated for their financial outlay in giving refuge to Jewish refugees from Naziheld Europe. thereby making it possible for those neutral countries to accept such refugees in large numbers. Perhaps. without wanting to prejudice permanent solutions or postwar settlements. we should respectfully remind our British friends of the general perplexity with which popular opinion in America is following that strange phenomenon of the Jewish national homelandPalestineentrusted to the guardianship of Great Britain. under international safeguards mainly for the purpose of offering refuge to the Jews who want and need to establish a homeland of their own. Palestine has become now the only country on earth not under German jurisdiction where a policy of actual dis. crimination is carried out against the Jews. Since the war started. every Pole. Yugoslav. and Greek refugee who was able to reach Palestine was welcomed there without reference to immigration laws. quotas. or other formalities of the days of peace. The only people who are scrutinized with minute thoroughness are Jewish refugees trying to reach Palestine. In their case. countless formalities must be complied with. Their number is held down to a ridiculous figure announced in other days by the British Government and never yet approved by the League of Nations. which exercises the right of control over the government of Palestine. Ships carrying helpless Jewish refugees to Palestine have been allowed to sink rather than to discharge their human cargo in the land of their destination. At other times. these socalled illegal refugees were put on board other ships and sent from Palestine to faraway islands in the Indian Ocean. and all this in the days of a catastrophic shipping shortage. All this is practiced in a country which was guaranteed in the last World War by England to be the Jevish national home. Perhaps this reminder of mine will suffice.
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