Speech #790101925

I think we should realize. however. that President Trumans request. even if acted upon by the British Government. will not solve the problem. It is still a belated emergency measure. The problem of the surviving Jews of Europe will not be solved by a hundred thousand immigration certificates. There are. perhaps. 3.000.000 Jews left in central and eastern Europe. They face a terrible aftermath of war in a continent still Imbued with bitter Jewish hatred. Palestine is still closed to them. .Both England and the United States are pledged to establish Palestine as a Jewish national home. It cannot be that if it is ruled by a majority of an antiJewish population. and so this pledge can only be fulfilled by permitting immigration which will create a majority of Jewish citizens. Great Britain pledged itself to this policy by the Balfour Declaration. As long ago as 1922 the Congress endorsed the same policy. and it has been repeatedly endorsed by American Presidents.