ISRAEL
SIR,—Your readers can , judge ho- - Mr. Kimelle or I—has 'wandered far afield.' In my last letter l had to quote plain English to clear up one of NI!' Kimchc's curious readings of references. Now he asserts that Alfred Lilienthal's account of a spec`" by Morris Ernst about FRD's plan 'runs completely counter' to the book-version' by Ernst--which Mr' Kimche has already dismissed as 'mixed-tip gar bcrish' The brain reels: interested readers, W.
ever, can compare the two accounts for '
themselvMes AS to Mr. Kimchc's pejorative labelling of . dLilienthall oansl ya n e'perossfaersysi oton observe tiohnti sJt op rKiangtealrre himself is the professional editor of an avowedlY and militantly Zionist magazine. Of course. Mr. Kimche cannot, as he says. find 't any official record of FDR's plan: the whole 1)°,111t is that FDR had to call it off before it got far. Mr. Kimche wants me to retract the basil; assertion : I cannot. I will gladly do so, in yourcolumns, on the day when he or someone else send ". Inc serious documentary proof that Zionism ever getieally welcomed every possible Western absorvr_ Lion plan, including FDR's; and used all that mass: international power it' successfully demonstrated ov r
Statehood to clamour throughout 1945-46 for the DPs to have a clear choice of haven. Was Truman subjected, over US immigration barriers, to that un- equalled pressure from Zionists that he experienced over Statehood in Palestine? Did Zionism ceaselessly lobby and harass the US Congress to pass emer- gency immigration laws, with even half the intensity as over every resolution dealing with Statehood and Immigration into Palestine?
To conclude: we in the West are also responsible for the fact that the DPs got no choice. We did not have to accept the Zionist demand that Palestine be the only haven. Every time we speak of what we Owe Jews, this failure ought to shame us. The world, Jews now in Israel, and the Arabs, live with the consequences.—Yours faithfully,
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