Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, Volume 1 (64 page)

4
     Harkabi, op. cit., p.214.

5
     Menachem Begin,
The Revolt
(Los Angeles, Nash Publishing, 1972).

6
     Ibid., Introduction, p.xi.

7
     Ibid.

8
     Menachem Begin,
The Revolt
(Los Angeles, Nash Publishing, 1972), p. xii.

9
     Ibid.

10
   Alfred M. Lilienthal, op. cit., p. 362.

11
   Menachem Begin, op. cit., pp. 42–3.

12
   Ibid.

13
   Ibid.

14
   Alfred M. Lilienthal, op. cit., p. 58.

15
   Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre,
O Jerusalem!
(London, Weisenfield and Nicolson,1972), pp.87-8.

16
   Ibid., p. 260.

17
   Ibid., p. 255.

18
   Ibid., p. 274.

19
   Ibid., p. 275.

20
   Ibid.

21
   Jacques de Reynier,
A Jerusalem un drapeau flottait sur la ligne de feu
(Neuchatel, Editions de la Baconniere, 1950), p. 213. The prime sources of the Collins and Lapierre account of events at Deir Yassin were de Reynier’s report to the International Red Cross and reports of the incident forwarded to the Chief Secretary of the Palestine government, Sir Henry Gurney, by Richard C. Catling, Assistant General of the Criminal Investigation Division on 13, 15 and 16 April, bearing the dossier number 179/110/17/GS and designated “Secret”.

22
   Collins and Lapierre, op. cit., p.279.

23
   Ibid.

24
   For this quotation and those on the following page, see Collins and Lapierre, op. cit., p.280, unless otherwise noted.

25
   Arthur Koestler,
Promise and Fulfilment, Palestine 1917–1949
(London, Macmillan, 1949), p. 160.

26
   Jacques de Reynier, op. cit., p. 213

27
   William R. Polk, David M. Stamler and Edmund Asfour,
Backdrop to Tragedy
(Boston, Beacon Press, 1957), p. 291.

28
   
The American Zionist,
issue of May–June 1976.

29
   Ibid.

30
   Menachem Begin, op. cit., pp. 164–5 as quoted by Lilienthal op. cit.

31
   Bertha Spofford Vester,
Our Jerusalem: An American Family in the Holy City
(New York, Doubleday, 1950); G. Kirk,
The Middle East 1945–1950
(Oxford University Press, 1954), p.262; S. N. Fisher,
The Middle East
(London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960), p. 589.

32
   Yigal Allon,
Ha Sepher Ha Palmach
, Vol 2, p. 286 as quoted by Lilienthal op. cit.

33
   Collins and Lapierre, op. cit., p. 336.

34
   Ibid., p. 281.

35
   Ibid., p. 261.

36
   Ibid., p. 263.

37
   Ibid., p. 264.

38
   Ibid., p. 263.

39
   Ibid., p. 264.

40
   Ibid., p. 265.

1
     FR 1947,
The Near East and Africa, Vol V
(Washington D. C., U.S. Government Printing office, 1971), p. 1309.

2
     
The Forrestal Diaries
, edited by Walter Millis (Cassell & Co., 1952), p. 294.

3
     Ibid.

4
     UN Document A/364, 3 September 1947.

5
     Henry Cattan, op. cit., p. 22.

6
     Henry Cattan, op. cit., p. 75.

7
     Official Records of the Second Special Session of the General Assembly, Document A/AC 14/32, 11 November 1947, pp. 276–78.

8
     Official Records of the Second Special Session of the General Assembly, pp. 299–301.

9
     Ibid.

10
   Ibid.

11
   Relevant UN Documents are: A/AC 14/21, 14 October 1947; A/AC 14/24, 16 October 1947; A/Ac 14/25, 16 October 1947; and A/AC 14/32, 11 November 1947.

12
   Ben-Gurion’s own writings contain many expressions to this effect.

13
   FR 1947, Vol V, pp. 1153–58.

14
   Ibid. (Footnote).

15
   Harry S. Truman,
Memoirs, Vol II, Years of Trial and Hope
(New York, Doubleday, 1958), p. 225 as quoted by Lilienthal op. cit.

16
   
The Forrestal Diaries,
op. cit., p. 299.

17
   Ibid.

18
   Ibid.

19
   
Forrestal Diaries
, op. cit., p. 311.

20
   Ibid.

21
   Ibid.

22
   Official Records of the General Assembly, 1947, Vol II, p. 1426.

23
   FR 1947, Vol V, p. 1309.

24
   Official Records of the General Assembly, 1947, Vol II, p. 1341.

25
   Ibid., p. 1330.

26
   Ibid., p. 1426.

27
   
The Forrestal Diaries,
op. cit., p. 331.

28
   Ibid., pp. 331-32.

29
   Alfred M. Lilienthal, op. cit., p. 67.

30
   Official Records of the General Assembly, 1947, Vol II, p. 1425.

31
   FR 1947, Vol V, p. 1309.

32
   For this paragraph and what follows on the next four, see
The Forrestal Diaries,
op. cit., pp. 343-44.

33
   FR 1948, Vol V, Part 2, pp. 666–75.

34
   Ibid., p. 657.

35
   Ibid.

36
   Ibid., pp. 637-41. Part of Marshall’s message to Truman was not in the text as declassified. The missing part was subsequently identified by Lilienthal as “White Four” in papers at the Harry S. Truman library.

37
   
The Forrestal Diaries
, op. cit., p. 367.

38
   FR 1948, Vol V, Part 2, p. 645.

39
   FR 1949,
The Near East, South Asia and Africa, Vol VI
(Washington D.C., 1971), p. 1074.

40
   Footnote to FR 1948, Vol V, pp. 665-66.

41
   From the Austin statement to the Security Council, reported in FR 1948, Vol V, part 2, pp. 675–76.

42
   FR 1948,
The Near East and Africa, Vol V, Part 2
(Washington D.C., 1976), p. 729.

43
   Ibid., telegram 309, from New York to the Secretary of State, “Eyes Only for McClintock from Rusk.”

44
   Merle Miller,
Plain Speaking
(New York, Berkley Publishing, 1966), pp. 216–7.

45
   Harry S. Truman, op. cit., p. 130.

46
   David Lloyd George,
Memoirs of the Peace Conference, Vol II
(Yale University Press, 1939), p. 722.

47
   Edward E. Grusd, B’nai B’rith:
The Story of a Covenant
(New York, Appleton- Century, 1966), p. 244.

48
   Memorandum, Jacobson to Dr. Josef Cohn, 1 April 1952, Weizmann Archives, Harry S. Truman Library as quoted by Lilienthal op. cit.

49
   Harry S. Truman, op. cit. “Eddie Jacobson,” Truman wrote, “had never been a Zionist, but was deeply touched by the sufferings of the Jewish people”.

50
   For here and what follows on this page, see Merle Miller, op. cit., p. 217.

51
   Memorandum, Jacobson to Cohn, op. cit.

52
   Margaret Truman, op. cit., p. 388.

53
   Subsequently reported by the
Washington Post
, 19 December 1976.

54
   FR 1948, Vol V, part 2, pp. 748–49, editorial note.

55
   Alfred M. Lilienthal, op. cit., p. 70.

56
   Harry S. Truman, op. cit., p. 163.

57
   FR 1948, Vol V, part 2, note 3, p. 750.

58
   Ibid., p. 759.

59
   Ibid.

60
   Ibid.

61
   ibid., pp. 759–60.

62
   
The Forrestal Diaries
, op. cit., p. 332.

63
   Alfred M. Lilienthal, op. cit., p. 88.

64
   Ibid.

65
   
The New York Times
, 11 and 16 February 1948.

66
   FR 1948, Vol V, Part 2, p. 906, editorial note.

67
   John Snetsinger,
Truman, The Jewish Vote and the Creation of Israel
(Stanford, Hoover Institute Press, 1974), p. 103–4.

68
   From notes of George M. Elsey, Clifford’s assistant, who had revised the text drafted by Niles to include suggestions in another Lowenthal memorandum—the seventh in five days.

69
   Patrick Anderson, T
he President’s Men, White House Assistants of Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
(Garden City, New York, Doubleday, 1968), pp. 118–19.

70
   This and the following four quotes from the Memorandum of the conversation by Secretary of State Marshall, FR 1948, Vol V, Part 2, pp. 972–76.

71
   Patrick Anderson, as quoted by Lilienthal op. cit.

72
   Marshall’s memorandum, op. cit.

73
   Ibid.

74
   Ibid.

75
   FR 1947,
The Near East and Africa, Vol V
(Washington D.C., Government Printing Office, 1971), p. 1321, message to Cairo; FR 1948, Vol V, p. 571, footnote 3, message to Jeddah.

76
   As stated by Clifford (and not disputed by others) in an address to the American Historical Association in Washington on 28 December 1976.

77
   FR 1948, Vol V, pp. 964–65.

78
   Weizmann, op. cit., p. 477.

79
   Ibid.

80
   Grusd, op. cit., pp. 244–45.