Now, there is the breach; there is the violation of the pledge; there is the abandonment of the Balfour Declaration; there is the end of the vision, of the hope, of the dream . . . . We are now asked to submit - and this is what rankles most with me - to an agitation that is fed with foreign money and ceaselessly inflamed with Nazi and Fascist propaganda.(75)
The Chamberlain faction prevailed, the White Paper was confirmed.
Then on September 3, Britain was at war with Germany, and Churchill again became first lord of the Admiralty. David Ben-Gurion declared to Mapai's Central Committee, "We must support the [British] army as though there were no White Paper, and fight the White Paper as though there were no war."
In his first radio address as war leader he spoke to the world of the "shattered nations and bludgeoned races . . . upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend, unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall."
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