A warning that “you can never tall what may be tucked away” in the findings of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, despite the reports to the effect that the committee has recommended admittance of 100,000 Jews and abrogation of the White Paper, was voiced here today by Emanuel Neumann, who returned from Palestine last week.
Dr. Neumann, who is a vice-president of the Zionist Organization of America and chairman of the Commission for Palestine Surveys, which is sponsoring the Jordan Valley Authority project, told a press conference that even if all the reports concerning the committee’s recommendations are favorable, they still do not meet the Zionist demand for establishment of a Jewish state.
The many volumes of testimony gathered by the committee in nearly a dozen countries had less influence on its final decisions than public opinion and political factors, Dr. Neumann asserted. He expressed the opinion that “something very important” must have happened at Lausanne to cause the American members to line up solidly for the immediate admission of 100,000 Jews.
The Palestine Jewish community has undergone a great transformation since his last visit in 1939, Dr. Neumann said. The Jews have a “colossal spirit of self-confidence,” and fear neither England nor the Arabs. The Arabs, he added, know of and respect Jewish military strength, and it is, therefore, difficult to incite them against the Jews.
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