“Dirty international politics” rather than local issues were the deciding factors in the United Nations decision to partition Palestine Prof. F.E. Jessop, British philosopher and psychologist, charged here in an address before the local branch of the Royal Empire Society.
Prof. Jessop spent several years in the Middle Best as an advisor to the British Government. He said that “like almost every Englishman who has lived there,” VE came back with “almost no sympathy for the Jewish cause.” Declaring that many Jews who had fled to Palestine because of Nazi persecution had no political interests there, Jessop said they desired nothing more now than to get out of Palestine, “but dare not say so.”
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