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Ismail Sidky Pasha, back from London discussions (sometimes limited by Sidky's bladder trouble), embarrassed Britain by letting his spokesman claim that Bevin had promised Egypt sovereignty over Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. A quick denial came from the British, who had no intention of surrendering military or administrative control of this northernmost link in the prospective Nigeria-Kenya chain...
...United States at the invitation of the New York Herald-Tribune Forum, Crossman served on the Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry on Palestine and has led the fight in Britain to change the Bevin policy. Bitterly opposed to much of what his Government is doing in meeting the problem of the Holy Land, he asserted that "every British official in the Middle East is anti-Jewish...
Only a few months ago, Winston Churchill shocked America and the world by proposing the formation of an Anglo-American bloc predicated on singular hostility toward the Soviet Union. Churchill must be more than gratified today to find Jimmy Byrnes, the little man's little man, securely entrenched in Ernie Bevin's ample vest pocket...
Written under the twin delusions that Americans were chiefly of Anglo-Saxon origin, and that this stock was greatly preferable to Eastern and Southern European strains, the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924 limits total annual immigration to 150,000, with individual nations held to a number proportional to their representation in the total 1920 United States population. However, the "Anglo-Saxons" and "Nordies" received a disproportionately large slice, for other Europeans were considered to be relatively inferior and undesirable. The emigration motivations of the latter were thought to be economic rather than religious or political. Unskilled and numerous, they appeared...
...settle on forbidden land in defiance of the White Paper. The Palestine community refuses to accept the legality of a document or policy that forbids entry to Palestine of their families, which is about what it amounts to today. Leaders of Haganah submitted a memorandum to the Anglo-American Commission of Enquiry which said, "We have declared war against the hostile policies of the British government towards us. But we have no animosity either towards the English people or toward the British Common-wealth of Nations. . . . The only conflict that exists between us was created by the British government when...