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Jews Will Continue to Enter Palestine

The following statement was presented by Justice
Brandeis to Dr. Solomon Goldman, then president
of the Zionist Organization of America0, following
the issuance by the British Government of the so-
called MacDonald White Paper on May 17, 1939.

The White Paper was intended to freeze the develop-
ment of the Jewish National Home and to maintain
the Jewish community of Palestine as a permanent
minority. It is interesting to note the similarity be-
tween this statement and the comment of Winston
Churchill, who, speaking in the House of Commons
in May, 1939, stigmatized the White Paper as
"a plain breach of a solemn obligation" and "an-
other Munich."

1. 1. A legal obligation assumed by Great Britain is the
basis for Jewish construction enterprise in Palestine. That
legal right, sustained by humanitarian needs, cannot be
obliterated for private advantage.
2. 2. What does the world propose to do with the Jews for
whom exile is enforced? Unless civilization has so reverted
to primitivism as to wish the destruction of homeless

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Publication Information: Book Title: Brandeis on Zionism: A Collection of Addresses and Statements. Contributors: Louis Dembitz Brandeis - unknown, Zionist Organization of America - orgname. Publisher: Zionist Organization of America. Place of Publication: Washington. Publication Year: 1942. Page Number: 155.
    
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