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Letters to the Editor
Southwestern Jewish Press, May 8, 1947, Page 2:

To the Editor:

In reporting the House of Lords debate on Palestine, the newspapers quoted Lord Altrincham as deeply concerned over the conditions under which unauthorized Jewish immigration into Palestine is taking place.  He described these conditions as "inhuman, disgusting and disgraceful," and the ships carrying Jewish refugees as "far worse than those used to carry slaves to America."  Similar "concern" was expressed by Lord Hall, who represented the Royal Navy's role in intercepting refugee ships headed for Palestine as a rescue operation.

Such solicitude from gentlemen who, in the same breath, urged that Britain's present illegal policies regarding Jewish immigration be retained and enforced.

The purpose underlying these "humanitarian" utterances was two weeks ago laid bare in all its cynicism by American newspaper correspondents. To quote one significant dispatch—that of the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart, writing from Jerusalem on April 11—"The British will launch a propaganda campaign against conditions on 'slave ships' and suggest that sinister motives are behind the flood of remnants of European Jewry to Palestine.  The wave of 'illegal immigration' believed impending will be denounced as a phony invasion, although great sympathy will be evinced for the unfortunate people hered on board 'slave ships'."

Further comment is unnecessary.

Dr. A.P. Nasatir