Bill Federer recounts Harry S. Truman’s understanding of the evils of denying God.
In poor health, Franklin Roosevelt wrote on April 5, 1945, to King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, promising not to recognize a Jewish state. Withing a week, the ailing Roosevelt died. The next president, Harry S. Truman, immediately proceeded with plans to recognize the state of Israel.
In his “Memoirs – Volume Two: Years of Trial and Hope,” published in 1956, Harry S. Truman stated: “When I was in the Senate, I had told my colleagues, Senator Wagner of New York and Senator Taft of Ohio, that I would go along on a resolution putting the Senate on record in favor of the speedy achievement of the Jewish homeland.”
President Truman commented at a press conference (New York Times, August 17, 1945): “The American view on Palestine is that we want to let as many of the Jews into Palestine as it is possible to let into that country.”
President Truman wrote to Winston Churchill, July 24, 1945: “The drastic restrictions imposed on the Jewish immigration by the British White Paper of May, 1939, continue to provoke passionate protest from Americans most interested in Palestine and in the Jewish problem. They fervently urge the lifting of these restrictions which deny to Jews, who have been so cruelly uprooted by ruthless Nazi persecutions, entrance into the land which represents for so many of them their only hope of survival.”
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