The opening of Palestine to Jewish immigration and the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine is advocated in messages cabled by ten prominent British leaders to Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, national chairman of the United Palestine Appeal. The leaders include Viscount Cecil, Lord Davies, Sir Wyndham Deeds, Lord Shell, Lord Wedgewood and others.
"The gates of Palestine must be thrown open to Jewish immigrants and refugees from all parts of the world at once," says Lord Davies in a cable in which he also scored the policy of his own government because of its restrictions on Jewish entry into Palestine. "These restrictions," he asserts, "have played into the hands of Hitler and the terrorists and they are the last shreds of the policy of appeasement which brought the United Nations to the verge of disaster."
Viscount Cecil, in his message, says that "The establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine is a new and effective settlement of the Jewish question." Sir Wyndham Deeds, formerly Chief Secretary of the Palestine Government, says in his cable that "there is only one solution for the Jewish question and that is to rebuild the National Home in Palestine, a task which must be carried out for the most part by the Jews."
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