Speech #780145179

I hope and pray the new setup will not. as did our Bermuda delegates. shy away from Palestine like frightened horses. If it does it is doomed to failure from the very start. The War Refugee Board must demand the abrogation of the nefarious White Paper of 1938 which would preclude Jewish immigration into Palestine after March 1944. Palestine. frankly. is the only country where the Jews are not unwanted. It would be catastrophic if the door were to be closed and Palestine liquidated as a national homeland for the Jews. If the War Refugee Board has the will to achieve. it will afford rescue and set up havens. including Palestine. so that the hapless and hopeless Jews may be spirited out of the Festung Europa and placed in camps in Palestine and ih neutral lands. It can set up an underground railway. as was done prior to and during the Civil War when Netroes were borne from the South to the North. It can issue a solemn warning to Rumania. Hungary. Bulgaria. and Petains Vichy France that they will be held accountable and strictly responsible for each and every potential refugee deported from their lands into enforced slavery and death in Nazidom. Such a warning should have a desirable effect. It may cause the saving of thousands of Jews by prevention of deportation into Poland and other hell holes. The shortwave radio can be used to sound these warnings. The 0.