Great Britain saw fit to .violate the provisions of the mandate. Great Britain undertook. without prior consultation of the United States. to impose what has since become known as the Chamberlain white paper. wherein. arbitrarily. Great Britain undertook to shut off Jewish immigration into Palestine. the only place on earth where victims of Hitlers persecutions could find asylum at a time when the need for Palestine was greatest in its history. Had not Great Britain imposed this policy as a part of the then prevailing appeasement policies of the British Government. Palestine would have becn available for hundreds of thousands. perhaps more than a million. of homeless Jews seeking to escape from Germany and the satellite countries where Hitlers antiJewish laws had been imposed.
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