Speech #790107253

This was the land which Moses saw. the Promised Land for the Israelites. It was then productive. For subsequent generations it was barren under Arab rule. It was again promised the modern Israelite under League of Nations jurisdiction. Due to political considerations. the British saw fit in 1940 summarily to prohibit further Jewish immigration to the world homeland the Jewish people themselves had worked hard to create in the Palestine area. The British had no real authority to issue this white paper edict. But ticklish wartime relations. particularly in regard to oil reserves controlled by the Arabian peoples. permitted the edict to stand.