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War Cabinet at the time and who foretold an increasing stream of Jewish immigration into Palestine and " in generations to come, a great Jewish state rising there once mote " ; by Lord Robert Cecil, and bymany others. American statesmen shared this view of the Jewish national home. Thus President Wilson, on 3 March, 1919, stated: "I am persuaded that the Allied nations, with the fullest concurrence of our own Government and people, are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish commonwealth." That the Government of the United States does not now consider the Jewish national home as already established is clearly stated in a letter of President Truman to King Ibn Saud, of Saudi Arabia, dated 29 October, 1946. He wrote : " The Government and people of the United States have given support to the concept of the Jewish national home in Palestine ever since the termination of the First World War, which resulted in the freeing of a large area of the Near East, including Palestine, and the establishment of a number of independent States which are now members of the United Nations." " The United States," wrote President Truman, " which contributed its blood and resources to the winning of that war, could not divest itself of a certain responsibility for the manner in which the freed territories were disposed of or for the fate of the peoples liberated at that time. It took the position, to which it still adheres, that these people should be prepared for self-government, and also that a national home for the Jewish people should be established in Palestine. " I am happy to note," declared the President, " that most of the liberated peoples are now citizens of independent countries. The Jewish National Home, however, has not as yet been fully developed." It should, of course, be clear —and I regret that statements made by certain representatives in recent days have tended to confuse what should be clear—that when we speak of a Jewish State we do not have in mind any racial State or any theocratic State, but one which will be based upon full equality and rights for all inhabitants without distinction of religion or race and without domination or subjugation. What we have in mind by the Jewish State is most succinctly stated in a resolution adopted by the British Labour Party in 1945—n0w represented by the present Government of United Kingdom which requested this Special Session of the United Nations. lam quoting : " Here, we halted halfway, irresolutely between conflicting policies. But there is surely neither hope nor meaning in a Jewish national home unless we are prepared to let the Jews, if they wish, enter this tiny land in such numbers as to become a majority. There was a strong case for this before the war, and there is an irresistible case for it now." When your Committee of Inquiry will come to consider proposals for the future Government of Palestine this inescapable and irreducible factor —the international obligation to ensure the continuous development of the Jewish national home —should be kept, in our judgment, constantly in mind. I believe it would be extremely helpful to the Committee of Inquiry if the mandatory Government would present the account of its stewardship of the Palestine mandate to it rather than wait for the