I do not care to detain the Senate. I should much prefer not to say anything. but I feel it to be my duty to say a few words to the Senate to explain mYf position in the Committee on Foreign Relations. The Senator from Texas voted against reporting the resolution. not because he was lacking in sympathy for the Jewish people. not because he did not want to see the stateless and homeless Jews of Europe immigrate to Palestine. but according to my view we are going about this matter in the wrong way. In the first place. this is not a primary United States responsibility. Under the League of Nations Great Britain received. a mandate for Palestine. We were not members of the League of Nations. In 1922 we adopted a resolution expressing sympathy with the Jewish people. and the hope that Great Britain would permit immigration into Palestine. I do not recall the exact language of the resolution. Great Britain has been permitting immigration into Palestine. At the present moment I think the quota is 1.500 a month. The Jewish people think that is not sufficient.
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