Speech #780178515

In the parliamentary mixup my resolution was the one that was passed unanimously and signed by the President. putting the Congress of the United States on record in favor of the Balfour resolution of establishing a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine. The Balfour resolution was adopted in time of war during the last war. and it was approved and upheld by the act of the House and the Senate and the President of the United States at that time. Now. in the midst of war. the British Government has seen fit. through the white paper issued in 1939. to limit the immigration of Jews into Palestine. and practically ban all immigration after this year. Everyone of us knows that the Jewish people of Europe have been persecuted and hounded almost to death in central Europe. They have no place to go. and they merely want permission to enter Palestine in accordance with the Balfour resolution. and in accordance with the pledges and the word of the British Empire and the approval of the Congress of the United States.