” Even officially, ” the writer continued, “he might yet swing a surprise on the world in this connection, as he sprang the other day with regard to Japanese aggression in China.”
President Roosevelt may make official representations to the British Government with regard to its White Paper on Palestine when the six-power refugee conference at the White House next month, it was indicated today by the diplomatic correspondent of the Jewish Chronicle.
Writing in the current issue of the Anglo-Jewish periodical, the correspondent said the President, in the course of the conference, might have “some pointed remarks to make” to Lord Winterton, chairman of the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee and the British Government’s official representative at the meeting, on the closing of Palestine as an asylum for Jewish refugees “in defiance to solemn international pledges.”
” Even officially, ” the writer continued, “he might yet swing a surprise on the world in this connection, as he sprang the other day with regard to Japanese aggression in China.”
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