German newspapers prominently feature an official German news agency fantastic report from Aleppo asserting that the “Jewish financial world” in the United States and England had imposed demands on Britain for support in the war against the Axis Powers involving the establishment of a Jewish State in all Palestine and part of the Lebanon.
Quoting “well-informed sources,” the Nazi agency said that Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency, had demanded Palestine, the southern half of the Lebanon and facilitation of Jewish emigration from the Near Eastern countries to the new Jewish State as condition for Jewish support in the war.
The British Government, the D.N.B. added, had accepted these terms and had agreed to dismiss Sir Harold MacMichael, the Palestine High Commissioner, from his post in the near future.
The Nazi report, evidently aimed for wide circulation in the Arab world, reported a speech allegedly made by Captain James Roosevelt during his visit to Tel Aviv, in which the President’s son is quoted as saying that his father had instructed him to inform the Jews that he would support all their aspirations in Palestine.
British agreement to the reported Jewish demands, was the reason why in its recent statement to the House of Commons on Syrian independence, the British Government made no reference to Palestine, the Nazi news agency says.
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