Churchill and Palestine

A frail Roo­sevelt with King Ibn Saud aboard USS Quin­cy, Great Bit­ter Lake, Egypt, 14 Feb­ru­ary 1945 with inter­preter Col. William Eddy, USMC. Fleet Admi­ral William Leahy, the President’s Chief of Staff, is at left. Remark­ably, King Saud did not believe reli­gion was the main Pales­tine prob­lem. It was “immi­gra­tion from East­ern Europe of peo­ple who were tech­ni­cal­ly and cul­tur­al­ly on a high­er lev­el than the Arabs, [who] had greater dif­fi­cul­ty in sur­viv­ing eco­nom­i­cal­ly. [That these] ener­getic Euro­peans are Jew­ish is not the cause of the trou­ble. It is their supe­ri­or skills and cul­ture.” (Naval His­to­ry & Her­itage Com­mand, Wiki­me­dia Commons)

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