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Comparative/World

Arieh J. Kochavi. Post-Holocaust Politics: Britain, the United States, and Jewish Refugees, 1945–1948. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 377. $45.00.

Two especially intractable problems confronted the British government at the end of hostilities in 1945. The first was there settlement of several million displaced persons, refugees, forced laborers and other homeless casualties of World War II stranded in the Allied zones of military occupation. The second was the future of the British Mandate in Palestine. The two problems intersected because of the several thousand Jews in Germany and Austria who now sought, either of their own volition or urged by Zionist agents, to go to Palestine and take part in the creation of a Zionist state there. Arieh J.Kochavi provides us with a polished study of these issues and of the mutually incompatible remedies proposed by the British and American governments. This is primarily an account of the diplomatic efforts by the British government in its losing battle to contain the waves of Jewish immigration to Palestine, both legal and illegal. Although Kochavi is in sympathy with the Jewish participants, he also outlines clearly British attempts to prevent the situation from getting completely out of hand. He shows that Whitehall's determination to secure British interests in the Middle East largely directed the policy toward the Jewish displaced persons. In this situation, political considerations rather than humanitarian feelings played the decisive role. The eventual triumph of the Zionists was due more to the political and diplomatic support exercised by Washington and Moscow, albeit for entirely different reasons, than to any humane sympathy for the Holocaust's victims. . . .

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