His Majestys Government was given a mandate over Palestine to continue until such time as a sufficient number of Jews had arrived in Palestine to established a proposed commonwealth. The United States Government was not a signatory to the Versailles Treaty but we were very much a factor in the British mandate over Palestine. because in 1924 the Coolidge administration negotiated a treaty with Great Britain in which the British administraton of the mandate was confirmed. This treaty. however. specifically stipulated that* Britian would make no change in the immigration policy into Palestine without prior consultation with the United States. But Britain has. as the record shows. completely ignored the United States in all matters pertaining to Palestine. On March 9. last year.
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