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C. DEAR Sin: We have the honor. on behalf of the American Zionist Emergency Council. to acknowledge receipt of your .letter of May 20. 1946. inviting comments or suggestions by our council with regard to the various matters discussed in the report of the AngloAmerican committee of inquiry. It will be recalled that the appointment of the AngloAmerican committee of inquiry arose from the request of President Truman last September to Prime Minister Attlee for the immediate immigration into Palestine of 100.000 survivors of European Jewry. At the time of the appointment of the committee strong exception was taken by our council. in telegrams addressed to the President. copies of which were Sent to the Department. to a procedure which would necessarily involve considerable delay in obtaining action on his request for the immediate transfer to Palestine of these 100.000 Jews. It was indeed no doubt in part due to the criticism very generally expressed at that time that a limitation of 120 days was placed upon the period within which the committee was expected to make its report. .