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    "ocrText": "hhg\nby all of his Moslem colleagues as well as by all Moslem\nleaders in India, on the question of continued Jewish immigra-\ntion into Palestine. He said that he believed that the United\nStates overlooked the fact that the policy we were advocating\naffected the hundred million Moslems of India as well as the\nMohammedans of the Arab countries. He justified this state-\nment by stressing the strong religious and cultural ties that\nexisted among all the Moslem peoples. He stated with great\nfeeling that his people felt \"wronged\" by the United States\nattitude, and that we must remember that there could be no\ntrue feeling of friendship between the United States and his\npeople as long as we adhered to the position we were taking.\nHe also made the usual criticism that the United States had\nno right to demand that another country change its domestic\npolicy with respect to immigration, particularly when we were\nnot prepared to do so ourselves.\nAt the conclusion of this talk Liaquat Ali Khan said,\nhowever, that he was not going to allow his feelings to lead\nhim to vote against our air agreement because he felt that if\nhe and his Moslem colleagues did so they would be \"biting off\nour nose to spite our face\". He also went so far as to say\nthat one of the reasons for which he wanted a commercial air\nagreement between India and the United States was that he\nhoped it would result in bringing many more Americans to the\nMiddle East and India, and that he knew that as soon as\nNATIONAL\n-2-\nARCHIVES AND\nSERVICE\""
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