The Forgotten Ally by Pierre Van Paassen

Author:Pierre Van Paassen [Paassen, Pierre Van]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, United States, Europe, General, Germany, Special Forces
ISBN: 9781786259233
Google: soTEDAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2016-07-26T03:00:37+00:00

CHAPTER 5—IMPERIALISM’S REWARD

BUT why that ungenerous, niggardly attitude, that officially inspired mutism? Britain, or its ambassador in Washington, Lord Halifax, who knows what is going on in the United States, could with one word have silenced the whispering campaign set in motion by Dr. Goebbels according to whom “the Jews are quite capable of starting wars but leave the fighting and all honest work to others.” The elaborately organized British Information Service in the United States could have pointed to Palestine, a country under British mandate, whose Jews did fight, where out of a Jewish population of half a million, one hundred and thirty-seven thousand registered for service the moment war broke out and whose Jewish inhabitants fought to the full extent they were permitted to fight.

What did Britain seek to hide? Wasn’t Hitler, who has slaughtered a larger number of Jews than the British Empire has suffered in casualties, to know that Jews are men who will fight back when they have arms in their hands?

Weren’t the Arabs to know that even if Britain could not count on them, she could rely on the Jews, till the bitter end if need be! What somber and sinister game is being played behind that shield of indifference and silence on the subject of Palestinian Jewry’s contribution in the war against the Axis?

That legitimate information on and recognition of Palestine’s achievements and Palestinian Jewry’s role in the war was designedly withheld by the British authorities was clearly shown in May, 1943, when the delegates to the Conference on Refugees in Bermuda were instructed to leave Palestine out of consideration in their “exploratory” canvass of the four corners of the earth for a prospective haven of refuge for the Jewish masses under the Nazi terror in Europe.

At that conference the British delegates sought to persuade their American colleagues to recognize the validity of the British government’s White Paper, which bars Jewish immigration into the Holy Land, beginning with the spring of 1944.

Jewish Palestine was therefore not to be mentioned in dispatches and the support that Palestine Jewry gave unstintedly to the British Empire was to be ignored because the Colonial Office wants to divert attention from Palestine Jewry’s role in order to forestall any possible Jewish demands. These might logically want to scrap the White Paper and admit, as soon as possible, the weary wanderers of Israel into that land where the economic, social and religious framework for their reception and integration has been built, is functioning, and is ready to receive them.

If the British Colonial Office is to have its way, the Jewish people are to be confronted with an unassailable and unchangeable fait accompli in the spring of 1944: the remnants of the martyred Jewish masses in Europe who have nothing to look forward to but the last great exodus to their Promised Land are going to find the gates to freedom and life shut in their faces.

And it is not Hitler, I am deeply sorry to say, but the government

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