I am. therefore. sending you a copy. I should like to call your attention to the conclusionsand recommendations appearing on page 8 and the following pagesespecially the references to Palestine. It appears that the available certificates for immigration to Palestine will be exhausted in the near future. It is suggested that the granting of an additional 100.000 of such certificates would contribute greatly to a sound solution for the future of Jews still in Germany and Austria. and for other Jewish refugees who do not wish to remain where they are or who for understandable reasons do not desire to return to their countries of origin. On the basis of this and other Information which has come to me I concur in the belief that no other single matter is so Important for those who have known the horrors of concentration camps for over a decade as is the future of immigration possibilities into Palestine. The number of such persons who wish immigration to Palestine or who would qualify for admission there is. unfortunately. no longer as large as it was before the Nazis began their extermination program. As I said to you in Potsdam. the American people. as a whole. firmly believe that immigration into Palestine should not be closed and that a reasonable number of Europes persecuted Jews should. in accordance with their wishes. be permitted to resettle there. I know you are in agreement on the proposition that future peace In Europe depends In large measure upon our finding sound solutions of problems confronting the displaced and formerly persecuted groups of people. No claim is more meritorious than that of the groups who for so many years have known persecution and enslavement.
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