Speech #790136415

I have talked with some of the leading rabbis of the world about this matter. During our last consideration of it this note. which was finally adopted by the State Department. came to the committee through the hands of the distinguished Senator from Ne* York from three brilliant Jews who drafted the language. In my opinion this recognition of the status of all people who live there is the proper attitude for the United States Senate to take. while undertaking to say to the mandate. "Open the doors of Palestine to the free immigration of Jews and to the full settlement of the land. Do not answer us by saying. No. we cannot do it. the land will not support them all. it will not support all the population that is there and the additional ones that come in. That will not do at all." The facts which I shall introduce. if I am permitted to do so--I shall ask unanimous consent to have them placed ii the REcoRD--show that immigration is a dynamic thing. that Palestine has never arrived at the limit of her capacity to receive immigration. and that all the time she has been receiving just as many Arabs as Jews. Her doors have been open to them all. and they have come in. but. as I have said. Palestine has not yet reached the limit of her capacity to receive immigration or her capacity for agricultural development. The resolution provides a limit. for it says: Shall be opened for free entry of Jews into that country to the maximum of its agricultural and economic potentialities. and that there shall be full opportunity fox colonization and development.