Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- PART I THE MAKING OF THE MULTIPLE TRAP
- PART II THE RESCUE DEBATE, THE MACRO PICTURE, AND THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES
- 10 Missed Opportunities?
- 11 The Intelligence Services and Rescue Options
- 12 The Jewish “Refugee Traffic”: The Road to Biltmore and Its Ramifications
- 13 American Wartime Realities, 1942–1943
- 14 Bermuda, Breckinridge Long, G-2, Biddle, Taylor and Rayburn, and Palestine Again
- 15 Roosevelt, Stimson, and the Palestine Question: British Inputs
- 16 The Views of Harold Glidden and/or British Intelligence, Consul General Pinkerton, and Rabbi Nelson Glueck
- 17 Various Methods of Rescue
- PART III THE SELF-DEFEATING MECHANISM OF THE RESCUE EFFORTS
- PART IV THE BRAND–GROSZ MISSIONS WITHIN THE LARGER PICTURE OF THE WAR AND THEIR RAMIFICATIONS
- PART V THE END OF THE FINAL SOLUTION: BACK TO HOSTAGE-TAKING TACTICS
- Epilogue: Self-Traps: The OSS and Kasztner at Nuremberg
- Notes on Sources
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
16 - The Views of Harold Glidden and/or British Intelligence, Consul General Pinkerton, and Rabbi Nelson Glueck
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- PART I THE MAKING OF THE MULTIPLE TRAP
- PART II THE RESCUE DEBATE, THE MACRO PICTURE, AND THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES
- 10 Missed Opportunities?
- 11 The Intelligence Services and Rescue Options
- 12 The Jewish “Refugee Traffic”: The Road to Biltmore and Its Ramifications
- 13 American Wartime Realities, 1942–1943
- 14 Bermuda, Breckinridge Long, G-2, Biddle, Taylor and Rayburn, and Palestine Again
- 15 Roosevelt, Stimson, and the Palestine Question: British Inputs
- 16 The Views of Harold Glidden and/or British Intelligence, Consul General Pinkerton, and Rabbi Nelson Glueck
- 17 Various Methods of Rescue
- PART III THE SELF-DEFEATING MECHANISM OF THE RESCUE EFFORTS
- PART IV THE BRAND–GROSZ MISSIONS WITHIN THE LARGER PICTURE OF THE WAR AND THEIR RAMIFICATIONS
- PART V THE END OF THE FINAL SOLUTION: BACK TO HOSTAGE-TAKING TACTICS
- Epilogue: Self-Traps: The OSS and Kasztner at Nuremberg
- Notes on Sources
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Summary
OSS-R&A Report 185 on “Zionism – Aims and Prospects” was an American, not just a British copied, report. It might have been very much influenced by the British, but the report assumed a distinctly American character.
First, the anonymous writer dismissed the Balfour Declaration of 1917 as a British affair, a concession they made “at the heat” of World War I, without mentioning its endorsement by the United States Congress and by the League of Nations, even if the State Department indeed had viewed it – and the Zionists – with open hostility since the early 1920s.
The writer then moved over to British calculations in regard to the Zionists, which had to consider not only Arab reactions to concessions made to them but Muslim–Indian reactions and even American reactions to commitments made to third parties that might involve the United States as well. Then the author described Zionism within the larger context of Jewish problems in general:
Jews living in Axis-dominated Europe are frantically seeking havens of refuge. Their first choice of refuge is usually the US. Their second a British possession far distant from Europe, their third choice South America and their fourth Palestine. Only because Palestine seems to be somewhat … [closer – S.A.] than other lands have many Jews turned in that direction. Their numbers may run into millions, far greater numbers than Palestine can support, even if Transjordan were annexed and the Arab population expelled.
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- Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews , pp. 147 - 152Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004