There has been a great contribution to the confusion prevailing in this matter as a result. first. of the various ramifications in the report. and. second. by the treatment to which the Senator referred. by the Prime Minister. who attached certain conditions to the carrying out of the report. It seems to me that the situation would be very greatly clarified if the American people and the Congress could understand that the recommendation that 100.000 refugees should go to Palestine is simply a recommendation that the plain terms of the mandate of the League of Nations to Britain should be fulfilled. that the terms of the white paper. as it was called. which. under the Chamberlain government. restricted the immigration. first. to 75.000. and now has cut it off entirely. was denounced by Winston Churchill in the Parliament as a plain violation of the covenant of the League and the mandate. was denounced by Mr. Herbert Morrison. the present Labor leader of the British House of Commons. as a plain violation of the mandate. and was denounced by unanimous opinion of the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations as a violation of the mandate of the League. So that there was no approval by any responsible authority. outside the British Government. including the Government of the United States. which expressly declared. through President Roosevelt. that it had never approved the white paperwe were a party by reason of the Coolidge Convention of 1924and the Mandates Commission of the League. which was the juridical body to pass upon the question.
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