The President described point 4 as a plan to help. as he put it. "the free peoples of the world. through their own efforts. to produce more food. more clothing. more materials for housing and more mechanical power to lighten their burdens." Never before in American history had such concern about the plight of the rest of the world characterized our nations foreign policy. "Not the discovery of atomic energy." wrote the historian Arnold Toynbee. "but the solicitude of the worlds most privileged people for its less privileged as vested in Trumans Point Four and the Marshall Plan .... this will be remembered as the single achievement of our age." Harry Trumans actions surrounding the creation of the state of Israel also demonstrate the quest for justice which underlay his conduct of foreign policy. The atrocities of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis had uprooted thousands of European Jews. leaving them homeless. To many Jewish leaders. the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine seemed to offer a solution to the refugee problem. Such a proposal did not meet with unanimous approval. One Senator wrote to the President expressing reservations about the idea.