In 1945, at war's end, Stone went to Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948) to report on the mass emigration of Eastern European Jews to the British Middle East—peoples whom the Nazis had displaced from the countries of Eastern Europe. In "Underground to Palestine" (1948), Stone reported that the political, financial and personal interests of those displaced Jews would have been, in his opinion, better served by emigrating to the U.S. rather than to the Zionist Homeland for the Jewish people promised in the Sykes–Picot Agreement (Asia Minor Agreement, 1916) that established British, French and Russian spheres of influence. Nonetheless, they preferred the promise of Israel because: