Without a mandate : the story of the "Bergson Group" and its campaign for a Jewish army to save the Jewish people of Europe, and the establishment of a Hebrew republic in Palestine / S. Merlin ; with an introduction by Rafael Medoff ; Editor, Rebecca Kook ; Copy editor, Renate Schein.

"The evolution of a delegation of the Irgun Zvai Leumi into the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation"--title page.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction - Samuel Merlin, thinker and activist -- Part I: "Dos Yiddishe folk" -- The people (the Hebrew nation) -- Setting the stage for Hitler -- Hebrew liberation movement -- Part II: The Hebrew emissaries -- A sketch of the emissaries -- The American friends of a Jewish Palestine -- Innovations, a new approach and unprecedented methods -- The committee for a Jewish army -- A proclamation on the moral rights of the stateless and Palestinian Jews -- Part III: The Holocaust -- Could the Jews have been saved? -- The Bermuda conference -- A strange episode in the U.S. senate -- The emergency committee to save the Jewish people of Europe -- The struggle for a special agency -- Three protestants and one emancipated Jew -- The war refugee board -- Did the WRB live up to expectations? -- Part IV: Campaign to save the last two million Jews -- "Free ports" for human beings -- The campaign to save the Jews of Hungary -- Horthy announces his readiness to let all the Jews leave -- U.S. and Great Britain were avers (or recoiled from) to accept Horthy's offer -- Temporary shelters in Palestine -- The Eri Jabotinsky file -- The arrest and deportation of Aryeh Ben-Eliezer -- Negotiating with the enemy -- Retaliation: the proposal to use poison gas against the Germans -- Part V: Conclusion -- Reflections on the Holocaust.