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This draft press release announcing de facto diplomatic recognition by the United States of the new state of Israel includes handwritten changes in the text, a notation of the time when it was released (eleven minutes after the new nation was proclaimed), and President Harry S. Truman's signature.
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Draft White House Press Release with Handwritten Note by President Harry S. Truman
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Draft White House Press Release with Handwritten Note by President Harry S. Truman
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This draft press release announcing de facto diplomatic recognition by the United States of the new state of Israel includes handwritten changes in the text, a notation of the time when it was released (eleven minutes after the new nation was proclaimed), and President Harry S. Truman's signature.
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Charles G. Ross Papers
Alphabetical Correspondence Files
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1948-05-14
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1948
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This Government has been informed that a Jewish
state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition
provisional
has been requested by the Government thereof.
The United States recognizes the provisional gov-
State
ernment as the de facto authority of the new Jewish
of
n
state, Israce.
Bay LIBHLEY
S SAND
they
U.S.GOVE
appeared
May 14.1948.
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