The Palestine cauldron was aboil again. Jews, now driven by the need to save survivors from the European holocaust, were demanding the immediate reopening of large-scale immigration into the Holy Land. Arabs, now united in a strong seven-land league, were protesting threateningly against any such concession. Both sides addressed their pleas and threats to Palestine's harassed custodian, Great Britain.
Into this explosive situation last week trod President Truman. As is his wont, the President simplified the complex situation.
Barbed Wire. In Washington he released a dynamitic report from former U.S. Immigration Commissioner Earl G. Harrison, whom he had sent to the Continent last...
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