A supporter of the Balfour Declaration. a British statement issued in 1917 that endorsed the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine. when Harry S. Truman became President of the United States in 1945. he made clear his sympathy for the Jewish people and his concern for the sufferings they had endured during the Nazi Holocaust. In 1946. President Truman urged British Prime Minister Clement Attlee to allow a reasonable number of European Jews to immigrate to Britishcontrolled Palestine. The governments of the United States and Great Britain created the AngloAmerican Committee of Inquiry to study the situation. The Committee recommended that the United Nations establish a trusteeship over Palestine. with the goal of reconciling Jewish and Arab interests in the region.
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