President. for the sake of the RECORD I think I should review the history of what has happened to these resolutions. The purpose of the resolution which the Senator from New York and I introduced in 1943 was to reaffirm the position of the United States with respect to what should be done in Palestine. and call upon the British Government to carry out the terms of the mandate. At that time. as today. there were thousands of Jewish refugees throughout the world who were seeking a haven..and they were excluded from Palestine not for economic reasons. but. allegedly. for fear that to allow them to enter might antagonize the Arabs. Many more wanted to go to Palestine. It is probably that if the policy of unrestricted immigration had been adopted at that time many lives would have been saved. particularly among the Jews of Rumania and Bulgaria. An argument had also arisen regarding the meaning of the term "Jewish national home" which we thought should be definitely settled. We also felt that a general peace treaty was in sight and that the settlement regarding Palestine which would be made in that treaty might well be final.
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