The terms of this mandate stated specifically that the mandatory power was to create a national home for the Jewish people. .But- the British did not pursue firmly the purposes underlying the Balfour Declaration and the terms of the mandate. but whittled down the idea of a national home in order to attempt to satisfy the Arab nationalists. Arabs are more numerous and evidently more important to the British Empire than Jews and oil is thicker than blood. An example of this was when.in 1930 the British proposed to limit Jewish immigration into Palestine as a relief for Arab unemployment. and the further instance Is the recommendation of Lord Peels commission in 1937 to partition Palestine and establish an independent Arab government there in order to stem the Increasing tide of Jewish immigration. which developed during the years of Nazi oppression. This policy of appeasement on the part of the British Government encouraged the Arabs to hope that violence would stop Jewish immigration. and Fascist and Nazi sources gave financial aid to the Arabs to carry out their sinister purposes. The climax came. of course. In 1939 with the issuance of the Infamous white paper in which the principles of the Balfour Declaration and the mandates constitution were abandoned. and which further proposed that Jewish immigration end in 5 years unless the Arabs acquiesced to further Immigration. and that no more than 75.000 immigrants be allowed in that period. and that Jewish purchases of land be limited. Neither the United States nor any other member of the League of Nations. by whose authority and consent England was given the mandate. was consulted prior to the issuance of the white paper. which was evidently not only done for the purpose of appeasing the Arabs but to gain for themselves certain special commercial and strategic advantages in the area. It may be argued that even though all of these contentions are true. just where does the United States -fit into that picture?
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