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NEW YORK OFFICE:
EMANUEL CELLER
1450 BROADWAY
15TH DISTRICT NEW YORK
NEW YORK CITY
MEMBER OF
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
Congress of the United States
1524 NEW HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON SECRETARIES:
House of Representatives
NEW YORK SECRETARIES:
BESSIE EFFRAT MARGARET BROOKS
JACO@GRALLA-T.
MARY DOUGHERTY
Washington, D. C.
March 20, 1946
The Honorable Harry S. Truman
President of the United States
BOVERN
Washington, D. C.
My dear Mr. President:
It is clearly evident from the rift that has arisen
between the American and Pritish members of the Anglo-American
Committee of Inquiry on Palestine that the British are determined
to control completely this inquiry. Mr. Bartley Crum was justi-
fied in demanding that an interim report be published, as had
been previously promised, recommending that your request for
the immediate entrance of 100,000 Jews into Palestine be complied
with. The British have decided there is to be no interim report
and the reason is readily discernible. The final report has
already been written in Whitehall Street.
Mr. Crum's views are shared by other American members of
the Committee, and their threat to resign is proof positive that
the Inquiry is being hampered by established British colonial
policy and that tis much vaunted objectivity is entirely absent
from its proceedings.
The apparent concern of the British for the Arabs, it is
interesting to note, played no part in their activities in
Indonesia, nor were Moslem feelings spared in Mr. Attlee's state-
ment on India's independence. It appears that only in Palestine
do the British fear to alienate the affection of the Moslems.
Can we with any honesty praise the Committee's objectivity
when we learn that its official record of Tuesday, March 12th,
did not contain the statement made by Auni Bey Abdul Hadi, Arab
spokesman, to the effect that the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem cooperated
with the Nazis because he thought they might win?
I believe it is time to give serious consideration as to
whether we shall continue in this inquiry, thereby committing
ourselves to a conclusion reached not by study, nor based on
moral principles, but to one pre-formed by the 'foreign policy
of Great Britain.
I respectfully submit that unless an interim report is
published, recommending that 100,000 Jews be permitted entrance
into Palestine immediately and unless the Committee is permitted
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