Speech #790263565

As we all know. the Balfour Declaration originally provided for the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine. The Senate adopted a resolution stating its opinion of what that intended. The President demanded that the Britsh admit 100.000 Jews into Palestine temporarily: Then an AngloAmerican Commission of inquiry was appointed. and the Commission made a very elaborate report. which included the recommendation that 100.000 Jewish refugees be admitted into Palestine. The Commission made other rather extensive recommendations which have not generally been accepted as yet. but which are under serious consideration. Instead of immediately proceeding to comply with the recommendations and admitting these refugees into Palestine. the British Government refused to proceed. and then our State Department. instead of insisting on carrying into effect the recommendations made in the report of the AngloAmerican Commission for the Investigation of Palestine. appointed another committee from the State Department which went over to London and met with certain British representatives. as I recall. within the past 2 weeks. They have just recommended this new partition plan which proposes to set up a Jewish state containing 1.500 square miles. leaving the other 43.000 square miles to the Arabs in Palestine. Furthermore. even in that 1.500 square miles there is no sovereignty and no control except under the direct supervision of the British mandate In Jerusalem.