This was another example of a "Munich appeasement." an appeasement with no moral foundation and with tragic consequences. During the war efforts were made to repeal the white paper and to make it possible for some of the victims of Hitler to escape with their lives into Palestine. But it was claimed by the British Government that admission of Jewish refugees into Palestine during the war years would retard the war effort and endanger our Allied position in the Middle East. We bowed to this decision. But again. after the British and Americans had cleared the Middle East and north Africa of the Nazi forces. the road to Palestine remained blocked.
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