Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

Responding to President Truman's pleas to admit more Jewish DPs to Palestine, British Prime Minister Attlee proposed a joint commission to study means of resolving the DP crisis. The resulting Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry submitted its final report in April 1946, after six months of studying the DP situation. Its suggestions included admission of more than 100,000 DPs to Palestine. Great Britain ignored the findings, but the report underscored growing pressure to create a Jewish state in Palestine. Visiting several camps, the committee distributed questionnaires that asked survivors to indicate, besides Palestine, their most favored destination of immigration. Most of those DPs reportedly wrote "crematoria."