 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - Public opinion - 1957 - 116 pages
...1945; he told the assembled chiefs of our Middle East governmental missions: I'm sorry, gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are...hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents. The figures of our aid to Middle Eastern countries in subsequent years have continued to reveal that,... | |
 | Malcolm H. Kerr - History - 1975 - 362 pages
...congressional elections. And after he did hear their statement, he replied, "I am sorry gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are...hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents." M Britain presented two more projects for solution of the Palestine problem, but both were rejected... | |
 | William Roger Louis - History - 1984 - 828 pages
...indiscreet and honest comment. When asked for an explanation of his pro-Jewish policy he once replied: 'I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are...Zionism; I do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs in my constituents.'l Truman wanted to be the master of his own Palestine policy, but 1 William A.... | |
 | Steven L. Spiegel - History - 1985 - 538 pages
...politics. He has been quoted as explaining to a group of diplomats in 1945, "I'm sorry, gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are...hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents," but this comment, if indeed it was made, was unusual.6 The president repeatedly told the State Department... | |
 | Cheryl Rubenberg - History - 1989 - 468 pages
...concerned about the direction and implications of the policies he was pursuing: "I am sorry, gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are...do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents."32 Truman seems also to have been genuinely concerned about the humanitarian issues involved... | |
 | Michael James Lacey - History - 1991 - 476 pages
...responsiveness to Zionist influence was, aside from his emotional predispositions, based on political reality. "I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are anxious for the success of Zionism," he told a number of State Department representatives on one occasion, "I do not have hundreds of thousands... | |
 | Shibley Telhami - History - 1990 - 306 pages
...Ben-Gurion on one point. As early as 1946 he told a group of diplomats: "I am sorry, gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are...do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents."23 Nonetheless, during the first two years of Israel's existence BenGurion continued... | |
 | John Mark Hansen - Political Science - 1991 - 284 pages
...delegation of State Department experts pressing for a softer policy toward Middle Eastern Arabs, "but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are...hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents." Because of their small numbers, Jewish supporters of Israel had to develop an apparatus for exerting... | |
 | John Mark Hansen - Political Science - 1991 - 284 pages
...delegation of State Department experts pressing for a softer policy toward Middle Eastern Arabs, "but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are...hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents." Because of their small numbers, Jewish supporters of Israel had to develop an apparatus for exerting... | |
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I'm sorry, gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are anxious for the success of Zionism; I do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents. 
