There is surely neither hope nor meaning in a Jewish national home unless we are prepared to let the Jews. if they wish. enter this tiny land in such numbers as to become a majority. There was a strong case for this before the war. and there is an irresistible case for it now. after the unspeakable atrocities of the coldblooded. calculated GermanNazi plan to kill all the Jews of Europe. Last April. reaffirming this pledge. another resolution called upon the British Government "to remove the present unjustifiable barriers on immigration. and to announce without delay proposals for a future Palestine. in which it has the full sympathy and support of the American and Russian Governments." Will this be done now when a hopeless future stares in the face of European Jewry. when every consideration of mercy. justiceyes. and even political logiccalls for a Jewish Palestine? I can end only by telling you of a little report from Palestine I saw the other day which left an indelible impression on my mind. It was written by a woman who had gone to meet a train bringing some 1.300 new refugee immigrants to Palestine. She stood with an old man waiting with tears in his eyes for a granddaughter. the only living member of the large family he had left behind him in Europe. with a physician. whose wife had been gassed to death in Germany but whose son had somehow escaped and was coming to him. with hundreds of other tremulous. bereft human beings. waiting for some one miraculously rescued relative. Then the newcomers began to descend from the trainan orphaned girl from Italy. an orphaned lad from France. a youth who. when asked from where he came. replied: "What difference does that make?
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