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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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Dave Niles informed Truman that Governor Dewey would speak on Jewish migration at the United Jewish Appeal during the Jewish holiday. Niles suggested Truman re-emphasize his position first. The White House requested a statement from Acting Secretary Will Clayton, who tasked Loy Henderson with drafting a mild version. The White House rejected it, and Under Secretary Dean Acheson redrafted a tougher version, which Truman issued on Oct. 4, the eve of Yom Kippur.
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By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON-Here is the inside story on how President Truman happened to issue his recent statement on Jewish immigration into Palestine.
About a week before the statement, Dave Niles, one of Truman's White House Secretaries, tipped him to the fact that Governor Dewey was speaking before the United Jewish Appeal on the weekend of the Jewish holiday and would make a strong statement for Jewish migration. Niles suggested that Truman beat Dewey to the punch and re-emphasize his own previous position for Jewish migration.
Accordingly, the White House asked Acting Secretary of State Will Clayton to draft a statement for the President to be issued on Oct. 4, the eve of Yom Kippur.
Clayton turned the matter over to Loy Henderson, head of the State Department's Near East Division, who has been accused of being pro-Arab, and came up with a milk-and-water statement calculated not to offend the British and Arabs.
When this went over to the White House, it got the immediate thumbs-down sign. By this time Under Secretary Dean Acheson had returned and taken over the helm in the State Department. He sat up most of one night redrafting and toughening up the statement on Palestine, which Truman finally issued just two days before Dewey's speech.
Note-Having been beaten to the punch, Dewey came out not for the migration of 100,000 Jews but for "hundreds of thousands."
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Oct. 4
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truman issued a statement on jewish immigration into palestine two days before dewey's speech; dewey responded by advocating for 'hundreds of thousands' of jewish migrants.
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Dave Niles informed Truman that Governor Dewey would speak on Jewish migration at the United Jewish Appeal during the Jewish holiday. Niles suggested Truman re-emphasize his position first. The White House requested a statement from Acting Secretary Will Clayton, who tasked Loy Henderson with drafting a mild version. The White House rejected it, and Under Secretary Dean Acheson redrafted a tougher version, which Truman issued on Oct. 4, the eve of Yom Kippur.