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32. CZA, Minutes, 3711, meeting of 9/19/43 and 3811, 12/19/43 and 1/23/44.
33. Optimism regarding the chances of aliyah from the Balkans, including Croatia
and Slovakia, is expressed in a report submitted by Kaplan following a visit, to Constantinople.
CZA Minutes, 3611, 3/28/43. Kaplan was particularly hopeful on the score
of arranging sea and overland transport from the Balkans to Turkey, and was most
concerned about preventing a bottleneck between Turkey and Palestine (see p. 8 of
the minutes).
34. See Chapter 9.
35. For a full description of the Parachutists Plan, see Gelber 1983, pp. 133-206.
36. Ibid., Yehieli to colleagues, 11/30/42, 12/12/42 and 12/23/42; Shaul Avigur to
the Histadrut executive committee, 1/15/43, and 2/2/43.
37. Ibid., Kadmon to Rami, 4/8/43.
38. On the problems relating to the Transnistria Plan and alternatives proposed,
see Chapter 10.
39. CZA L15/110, Barlas to Linton, 3/17, and 3/23/43; LI 10/189, 12/17/43; L15/
188, Barlas to Kaplan, 2/15/43, and a summary discussion in letter from Geiger to
Barlas, 2/11/44.
40. HA 14/60; and see the letter of Shind to Kadmon, 3/17/43, and Braginsky's
criticism of procedures, 7/25/43.
Chapter 12
1. CO 733/436/75113, the high commissioner to the Colonial Office (CO), 12/
2/42
2. FO 371/36655 W4236, Foreign Office (FO) to the Washington ambassador, 3/
18/43. The cable exemplifies the British approach just prior to the decision to convene
the Bermuda Conference (April 1943).
3. See Chapter 10.
4. Zweig 1986, pp. 137-140.
5. FO 371/36677 W4102 3/10 and 3/8/43, NAR 840.48 Rcf/3665, 3/16/43, Cordell
Hull to the London ambassador.
6. FO 371/36655 W4236, Cable to Washington explaining aims of the plan.
7. PRO, PREM 55/2.
8. FO 371/36676 W850, from Bern (Norton) to the FO, 6/14/43. With hindsight
we now know that this step saved the Jews of Bulgaria in the face of German pressure
to deport them "to the east," which lasted until September 1943. The German Foreign
Office reached the conclusion at that time that only a change in the military situation
would convince the Bulgarians to change their minds. On August 30, 1944, the Bulgarian
government repealed all anti-Jewish legislation. For a detailed discussion, see
Hilberg, pp. 473-484.
9. FO 371/36677, Namier to Boyd, 3/25/43. See the proposals of the Board of
Deputies and notes on the talk with Mr. Brodetsky (June 27 and 29) in FO 371/36694
W1178.
10. Boyd wrote to Randall on 3/4/43 that the Colonial Office considered Bulgaria
to offer the best chance given the advantage of rail transport to Palestine: FO 371/
36621 W4070.
11. FO 371/36676 W850, the FO to Ankara, 1/16/43.
12. FO 371/36654 W3468.
13. Ibid.