Bartley Crum was a confidant of William Randolph Hearst and the 1940 U.S. Presidential candidate Wendel Willkie. A Roman Catholic, Crum was a member of the Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry on Palestine in 1945 that advised President Harry Truman to support the opening of the British Mandate of Palestine to unrestricted Jewish immigration, and to allow the creation of a Jewish state. His book, Behind the Silken Curtain a Personal Account of Anglo-American Diplomacy in Palestine and the Middle East was published by Simon & Schuster in 1947. He was publisher of the New York Star newspaper until its close in January 1947

Behind the Silken Curtain: A Personal Account of Anglo-American Diplomacy in Palestine and the Middle East

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Crum, Bartley Cavanaugh

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Behind the Silken Curtain: A Personal Account of Anglo-American Diplomacy in Palestine and the Middle East