At a 1941 conference in the U.S. where he was joined by General Sikorski , he advocated forgetting differences and " uniting all forces in an effort to defeat the enemy . " He saw the struggle in Palestine as setting an example for the rest of the world . " Although the war has held up our program as far as Palestine is concerned , in God 's good time the Jewish State will be established and it will contribute as much happiness and prosperity to the Arab as to the Jew . " During a speech in April 1941 , Cazalet stated : On 27 June 1943 , a week before he was killed , he had visited Cairo and then Jerusalem , where he met with David Ben-Gurion and others . His last public statements recorded were at that meeting , where he said , " I would gladly give my life for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine , as I am ready to give my life for the preservation of the British Empire ... Whatever happens , the Jews '' must '' have a permanent home . " After serving in the House of Commons for nineteen years , he was considered one of the " most brilliant " of the younger men in the Commons . " His knowledge of central Europe was probably unequaled , " wrote the '' New York Times '' after his sudden death in 1943 , at age 46 , when his plane crashed seconds after take off from Gibraltar
crashed seconds after take off
1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash
Victor Cazalet