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Leon Blum Says Immigration to Palestine Can Be Achieved if World Opinion Favors It

July 8, 1946
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Former French Premier Leon Blum stated today in a signed editorial in the official Socialist newspaper, Le Populaire, that tens of thousands of Jews could be admitted to Palestine if world opinion in their behalf would crystallize. He pointed out that Palestine is not a British territory but a League of Nations mandate administered by Britain.

Except perhaps for certain elements in the British Colonial and Foreign Offices, Blum wrote that the British people are in favor of Jewish immigration to Palestine, provided they receive American assistance. He declared that he did not believe the British Labor Party was prepared to help Hitler’s former partner, the Mufti, in his machinations.

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