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STATE
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULY 2, 1946
The President conferred today with the following American members
of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise,
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, Mr. Louis Lipsky and Rabbi Abba H. Silver.
The representatives of the Jewish Agency gave the President their
views of recent events in Palestine.
The President expressed his regret at these developments in
Palestine. He informed the representatives of the Jewish Agency that the
Government of the United States had not been consulted on these measures
prior to their adoption by the British Government. He expressed the hope
that the leaders of the Jewish community in Palestine would soon be
released and that the situation would soon return to normal.
The President added further that it was his determination that
these most recent events should mean no delay in pushing forward with a
policy of transferring 100,000 Jewish immigrants to Palestine with all
dispatch, in accordance with the statement he made upon the receipt of the
report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. The President indicated
that the Government of the United States was prepared to assume technical
and financial responsibility for the transportation of these immigrants
from Europe to Palestine.
He expressed his thanks for the workmanlike suggestions embodied
in the letter which the American members of the Jewish Agency Executive
sent him on June 14 with respect to the technical and financial problems
involved in the transfer and resettlement of the 100,000 immigrants.