Lieutenant General Sir Frederick
Edgeworth Morgan KCB
"They certainly do not
look like persecuted people.
I believe
that they have got a
plan, a positive plan,
to get out of Europe."
Victor Bernstein cabled from Germany "it must be emphasized that a great part of Morgan's statement . . . had firm foundation in truth." Sobersided New York Timesman Raymond Daniell corroborated him: "There is a regular underground organization;" it "maintains secret collective centers . . . gives Jewish refugees false papers and cash for the journey."
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"The Final Solution of the
Jewish Question
lies therefore in the
establishment of the Jewish
State."
Zionism Again
We are interested, however, in the political role that these DP (Displaced Persons) camps played, and the simple fact of the matter is that the Jewish DP camps and other living quarters served as transit and military training camps for the invasion of Palestine.
The world had an opportunity to learn this fact as early as January 1946. As happens on occasion in "international organizations," the nominal head of the UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) operations in Germany, British General Sir Frederick E. Morgan, was his own man and not a Zionist stooge. While he had real control only over a part of the UNRRA German operations, he knew most of what was going on and made a public issue of it. At a press conference in Frankfurt, he charged that an organized Jewish group was sponsoring an exodus of Jews from Poland into the U.S. zone in Germany. He ridiculed "all the talk about pogroms within Poland," pointing out that Jews arriving in trainloads in Berlin were well fed, well dressed, and had plenty of money:
"They certainly do not look like a persecuted people. I believe that they have got a plan, a positive plan, to get out of Europe."
Morgan added that their money was to a great extent occupation marks, printed by the Russians. It may be recalled by the reader that one of the most spectacular acts of Soviet agent Harry Dexter White, whom we encountered in Chapter 3 (pp. 88, 122) as the boss of the U.S. Treasury's international operations, was his transmission to the Russians of the plates of the U.S. occupation currency.
Chaim Weizmann denounced Morgan's statement as "palpably anti-Semitic," and Rabbi Wise declared that it savored of Nazism at its worst and was reminiscent of the fraudulent Protocols of Zion. UNRRA headquarters in the U.S. announced that Morgan had been dismissed, but Morgan denied this. Wise, Henry Monsky (president of B'nai B'rth), and other prominent Jews then huddled with Lehman and "assured Governor Lehman that it was unwise under the circumstances to press the case against Morgan," since Morgan apparently had enough evidence to support his statement.
Sir Frederick Morgan wrote in
his 1961 book Peace
and War: A Soldier's Life:
I had been able to piece together a reasonably comprehensive picture of the way in which the UNRRA set up was being most skilfully used to promote what was nothing less than a Zionist campaign of aggression in Palestine. In defiance of the prohibition by the British Mandatory power, reluctant as ever to employ decisive means, the admirably organised Zionist command was employing any and every means of forcing immigration into the country irrespective of the hardship and sufferings of the immigrants, few of whom seemed to have spontaneous enthusiasm for the Zionist cause. The whole project evidently had Russian connivance, if not actual support, since its success would conduce to the elimination of British authority in a vital area of the Middle East.Peace and War: A Soldier's Life (1961) page 245
