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It was following a long and tedious correspondence between [[Winston Churchill]] and [[Chaim Weizmann]].<ref name=tqftrp/>

It was following a long and tedious correspondence between [[Winston Churchill]] and [[Chaim Weitzmann]].<ref name=tqftrp/>

==Earlier rejection of a Jewish army of 200,000===

==Earlier rejection of a Jewish army of 200,000===

The plan for a "Jewish Army" of 200,000 Jews, proposed by the Zionist Organization 1940-1944, was rejected by the British government.<ref>Committee for a Jewish Army New-York ([https://www.infocenters.co.il/jabo/jabo_multimedia/Files/linked/%D7%973%20-5_8.PDF]).</ref><ref>[https://www.jta.org/archive/senators-mead-murray-stress-need-for-jewish-army-in-middle-east Senators Mead, Murray Stress Need for Jewish Army in Middle East]. ''JTA''. May 4, 1942.<blockquote><small>

The plan for a "Jewish Army" of 200,000 Jews, proposed by the Zionist Organization 1940-1944, was rejected by the British government.<ref>Committee for a Jewish Army New-York ([https://www.infocenters.co.il/jabo/jabo_multimedia/Files/linked/%D7%973%20-5_8.PDF]).</ref><ref>[https://www.jta.org/archive/senators-mead-murray-stress-need-for-jewish-army-in-middle-east Senators Mead, Murray Stress Need for Jewish Army in Middle East]. ''JTA''. May 4, 1942.<blockquote><small>

U. S. Senator James M. Mead of New York, speaking last night, before 700 guests, at the testimonial dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, tendered to Pierre van Paassen, foreign correspondent, and national chairman of the Committee for a Jewish Army, declared that “We should recognize that to discriminate against the stateless and Palestinian Jews by refusing them the status and dignity we have granted to the Free Dutch, the Free Poles, the Free Czechs and the Free French, and all other free peoples, is to violate the sacred principles for which we are fighting!”</small></blockquot></ref>

U. S. Senator James M. Mead of New York, speaking last night, before 700 guests, at the testimonial dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, tendered to Pierre van Paassen, foreign correspondent, and national chairman of the Committee for a Jewish Army, declared that “We should recognize that to discriminate against the stateless and Palestinian Jews by refusing them the status and dignity we have granted to the Free Dutch, the Free Poles, the Free Czechs and the Free French, and all other free peoples, is to violate the sacred principles for which we are fighting!”</small></blockquote></ref>

==See also==

==See also==