Dear Editor
Dear Editor A Forgotten Treaty In "The Threat to Israel's Security" (NL, March 14), Hans J. Morgenthau states that "a group within the State Department ... has endeavored to check and, if...
...President Truman recogThe New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...He says that if this faction cannot "stymie a policy" through "head-on opposition," it frustrates it by pretending to support it...
...senators, representatives and others charged that Great Britain's White Paper limiting lew-ish immigration into Palestine violated this article...
...Secretary of State Cordell Hull once called support for a lewish national home a "British commitment," and I myself have received a letter from a State Department official denying any relationship between the U.S...
...Their standard of living had improved, they said...
...Yet if it ever came down to a rebellion against President Ceausescu, if a Hungarian-type uprising broke out on the streets, they wouldn't hesitate to join it...
...and the Palestine Mandate...
...their supermarkets had food, new shoes were not beyond their means, and they could even afford to go out once in a while—though not to the single restaurant in Bucharest serving decent food...
...They would never sign a dissident petition, either—out of fear...
...has endeavored to check and, if possible, undermine the Presidential support for Israel...
...consent...
...since World War I. Henry Kissinger's November 12, 1973 statement that the U.S...
...Article 7 prohibited certain changes in the operation of the Palestine Mandate without U.S...
...The preamble of the document quoted the full Palestine Mandate of 1922—calling for the establishment of a Jewish national homeland—and Article 1 gave U.S...
...Arlington, Va...
...In reality, under Article VI of the U.S...
...It has stymied not only a "policy," but a full-fledged treaty as well—what Clark M. Clifford (in a memorandum of March 8, 1948) called "the American-British Palestine Mandate Convention of December 3, 1924...
...nized this when he wrote, in an October 1946 letter to King Ibn Saud, that support for a Jewish state was a "position" of the U.S...
...Constitution, it is "the supreme law of the land...
...In 1939, a large group of U.S...
...Most people I talked to on trains, in restaurants, at social gatherings found the system, if nothing to cheer about, at least manageable...
...Sidney Koretz The Other Rumanians I enjoyed Mark Hopkins' "The Other Russians" (NL, April 11), especially in the light of my travels in Rumania a few years back...
...But in large part, these individuals were from the middle-class...
...backing of Israel "has been our policy in the absence of any formal arrangement" is contrary to historical fact...
...C. K. Brecher 27...
...Many Rumanians live in abject poverty, and their perspective is different...
...their efforts were "stymied" by the State Department...
...only foreigners or top officials had that kind of money...
...Buffalo, N.Y...
...assent...
Vol. 60 • April 1977 • No. 9
