Speech #790196310

Or by the successor thereto. that is. the United Nations. of the world. who have succeeded to the mandates of the League. and with the compliance of the United States of America. through the competent authority. because of our participation through the Coolidge Convention. of 1924. which was ratified by the Congress? Is it not true that while the hundred thousand refugees whose admission to Palestine is requested are entirely within the terms of the mandate. in accordance with what everyone has said were their rights. the other conditions of the report of the AngloAmerican. Commission can have no validity until they are approved not merely by the Government of Britain. not merely by the Government of the United Statesbut by all the nations concerned in the mandate of the League or of the United Nations. Furthermore. the executive authority of the United States cannot possibly extend to the modification of the mandate. because it was created by a treaty ratified bythe Senate of the United States. and therefore could only be modified by an authority equal to that which created it. While we might welcome the inquiries of the Commission. while we might pay respect to them as a body of respectable gentlemen. yet we must recognize that the only validity any action regarding Palestine can ever have is through the action- of the Governments. through their constituted constitutional authority to modify the terms.