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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23315, 26 September 1945, Page 5

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Immigration To Palestine Referred To United Nations By Telegrapn— B Z Press Assn —Copyright LONDON. September 24. It is learned on high authority that the British Governprent has referred the whole issue of Jewish immigration to Palestine and the future of the country to the Council of the United Nations, says Reuter's. This step followed the United States rejection of the British offer that the two Governments should assume j tint responsibility for settling the problem. Tlie Government was considerably surprised when it received soon after a personal letter from President Truman supporting the Jewish claim for the immediate immigration of 100.000 Jews to Palestine. Labour Ministers who share the President’s sentiments in the matter at the same time take the view that the United States policy in the Middle East is such that the Government has no guarantee of United States support should it embark on the policy outlined in the President's letter. Palestine under British mandate is the only civilised country in the world discriminating against jews, said Dr. Chaim Weizmann (President of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland >, in a speech in London. He added that the Jews wpuld never submit to a policy of refusing the Jews a chance of rebuilding to full national life in Palestine. Two months had elapsed since the present Government had come to power, yet the 1939 White Paper—condemned by the Labour Party as a breach of faith—was still in force. Jews were killed in millions while the world stood aghast. So-called liberated remnants continued to deteriorate, scores of tho'-se.nds languished in a German internment camp or wandered over the roads of Europe fleeing from death. Their misery was indescribable. The only hope and the only demand of a vast majority was for permits to enter Palestine, whose doors remained barred. Arabs Determined A Cairo message says that the Sec-retary-General of the Arab League. Azzam Bey. commenting on President Truman's support for the Jewish claim for immediste immigration Of 100.000 Jews to Palestine, declared that the Arab States could not agree to such a proposal. They did not accept it as the basis for negotiation. Palestine was an Arab unit, and Arab leaders were agreed on the need for the evacuation of foreign troops from the Middle East. Tripolitania was ripe for independence. The Arabs were prepared to resist any Anglo-French or Italian claims on essentially Arab territory, if necessary by force of arms.