We shall consider: ”Anyone in Israel considering the surrender of Jewish territory is treason and must be prosecuted”

We shall consider: ”Anyone in Israel considering the surrender of Jewish territory is treason and must be prosecuted”

Clipping from Saint Petersburg Times (approximately 1946)

Washington - (UP) - Britain's treaty grafting independence to Trans-Jordan violates agreements with the United States, the United Nations and the Old League, as well as the rights of the people of Palestine, Senator Francis J. Myers, Pennsylvania democrat, charged yesterday.

Echoing the words of Senator Claude Pepper, Democrat, Florida, who flayed U.S. foreign policy, Thursday, Myers asserted that Trans-Jordan is not ready for the statehood and "illegally granted". And in offering that goal of all dependencies, he added Britain has acted "in contempt of the senate of the United States." 
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"WHY THIS HASTE and Stealth?" he asked in a floor speech. "The British government which has fought all attempts at freedom, all movements for independence in the Middle East, is now discovered in the gracious role of liberator.

"Are there perhaps some hidden resources, mineral wealth or oil which are involved?"

He demanded that the state department explain its failure to protest the treaty violation, and urged that the senate demand all the facts.

Pepper charged that the United States had become a guarantor of British Imperialism, and that the British-Trans-Jordan agreement was but a "subterfuge" so long as his majesty's troops are allowed to remain in that country. He also asserted that the United States and Britain were ganging up on Russia, and added:

"WHAT I DECRY is the international hypocrisy, sham and pretense. If the British people want the Russians to get their troops out of Iraq, let them get their troops out of Trans-Jordan. Let them get their troops out of Lebanon and Syria, and let them get their troops out of Palestine."

Myers picked up that tune, changing only the words. In angry mood, the dark-haired Pennsylvanian told his colleagues that:

1. The territory of Trans-Jordan is contained in the original mandate for Palestine, and under its terms, the mandate could not be unilaterally altered.

2. Under the Anglo-American Convention of 1924, Britain could not change the mandate's terms without the consent of the United States.

3. This violation of the treaty with the United States also "strikes at the charter of the United Nations adopted at San Francisco" which "specifically states that no change can be made in the status of mandated territories without the approval of the Jewish people in Palestine and UNO's general assembly."

Myers asserted that there was no more justification for separating Trans-Jordan from Palestine then there was for "the separation of the United States into two nations: Trans-Mississippi and Cis-Mississippi."

"Aaron Burr tried to do that to our nation" he said. "He was tried for treason".

We shall consider: ”Anyone in Israel considering the surrender of Jewish territory is treason and must be prosecuted”
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