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American and British Jews carried out public activities and held several meetings and conferences, the most important being their Extraordinary World Conference at the Biltmore Hotel in New York in May 1942, where they decided to make Palestine a Jewish state and expel the Arabs from it. This was followed by their World Conference in London in January 1945.

On 3 November 1943, a majority of the members of the United States Senate and 181 members of the House submitted a memorandum to the American president expressing sympathy for the Jews and stating that the purpose of the Balfour Declaration was to establish a Jewish state in Palestine, a commonwealth.

In the summer of 1944, during the presidential election, the Republican Party held a convention and the Democratic Party held another convention to nominate a presidential candidate. Each convention supported making Palestine a Jewish state.

President Roosevelt sent letters to Jewish leaders in America authorizing them to announce his support for a decision to make Palestine a Jewish state, and stating that his government did not approve of the British White Paper policy. When Roosevelt was reelected president in 1945, he reaffirmed his pledge to the Jews to help them establish a Jewish state in Palestine.

In March 1944, some senators submitted a memorandum to the Foreign Relations Committee containing a proposal to repeal the British White Paper and establish a Jewish state in Palestine. This memorandum was temporarily shelved at the request of George Marshall, Secretary of State and chief of staff of the United States Army, for military reasons and out of fear of provoking the Arabs and affecting the military position. When the course of the war changed in favor of the Allies, George Marshall sent a letter to Wagner, the Senate majority leader, saying that he supported the proposal in the memorandum because the military considerations that had previously led him to oppose consideration of it had disappeared.

In 1945, Jewish propaganda for the Jewish-state project intensified in America through newspapers, radio, and news agencies. Five thousand Protestant ministers in America held a conference and afterward submitted a memorandum to the highest American authorities demanding that Palestine’s gates be opened to Jewish immigration.

An overwhelming majority of the councils of the United States demanded the establishment of the Jewish state and the opening of Palestine to free Jewish immigration.