Mr. Speaker. the British white paper of May 1939 has practically closed Palestine to all Jewish immigration. At a time when millions of European Jews have been massacred by the Nazis. the chief and almost the only door to escape will be slammed in the face of those hundreds of thousands who still survive and whom the Nazis have starved. impoverished. uprooted from home and occupation. The Palestine white paper followed by a few months the Munich surrender. It reflected the same crisis in world statesmanship and international morality. The League of Nations mandate by virtue of which Great Britain governs Palestine made her responsible "for placing the country under such political. administrative. and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish national home" and obligated her specifically to facilitate Jewish immigration. By abandoning these obligations to the Jewish national home. Britain hoped to secure the support of the Arab world in the great struggle that was clearly about to begin.
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