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...brought to a close and that the "Jewish national homeland" promised by Great Britain in 1917 was squelched. In Arab Jaffa there was singing and dancing in the streets. In Jewish Tel Aviv there were prayers and parades through the streets with banners reading "WE WON'T SUBMIT!" and "DOWN WITH MACDONALD!" Meanwhile, the Palestine Jewish Agency called the restrictions a "concession to Arab political claims," said that the Jewish people "will not submit to the conversion of the Jewish national home into a ghetto." In the U. S., Zionists were going to kick to President Roosevelt...
What he did submit was a 20-year new deal for the West Indies. If the British Exchequer were as big as little Scot MacDonald's heart he would put every blackamoor in the islands on Easy Street. But all he could expect to get from a war-pressed Parliament was $4,000,000 a year, to be spent for West Indian education, slum clearance, land settlement, labor departments. On all British colonies, Mr. MacDonald proposed to spend $20,000,000 a year for ten years. In addition to their specific allotment, the West Indies may share in this...
Simultancously, Secretary of State Cordell Hull emphasized at a press conference that American vessels still are under strict orders to refuse conveys such as Great Britain reportedly is prepared to offer U.S. ships forced to submit to contraband inspection in belligerent waters...
...will: 2) The State Department did not take a stronger stand. The U. S. had economic weapons to force Britain to show due respect, could send naval escorts to convoy merchant ships. What if a U. S. vessel should defy British patrol boats at Gibraltar, refuse to stop and submit to a search? One steamship company, anxious to get a vessel past Gibraltar, thought of ordering its skipper to do just that-shut off all radio communication, black out and try to slip through. Such an incident might easily transcend the adventure of the City of Flint...
...Listened to Michigan Representative Frank E. Hook declare that he would submit evidence showing that fellow Democrat Martin Dies, chairman of the Committee on Un-American Activities, was connected with the Christian Front...