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TROMAN LIBRARY Statement MAX 9,1948 1948 GOVERNMENT Events during the past several days underline the importance #20 of an early statement by the President of his intention to recognize the new Jewish State in Palestine as soon as it comes into existence. 1. We asked for a special session of the General Assembly because at that time our experts said it was impossible to achieve partition. We continued to maintain that partition was our ultimate objective. But while the UN debated and discussed, the Jews in Palestine, by showing unexpected strength in relation to the Arabs, succeeded in achieving that objective. 2. Now it is clear that partition is an accomplished fact. Everyone realizes this except the State Department. The British realize it; British commercial interests are investing heavily in Jewish Palestine. The top British Military Commanders in Palestine and Egypt have officially reported that the Jews are in complete control of the partition area. Diplomatically, Creech Jones assumed a Jewish state after May 15th in his statement on Friday at Lake Success. (See attached N.Y. Times clipping of May 8 - clipping A). The UN realizes it; as recently as Friday, May 7, the head of the UN commission's advance party to Palestine urged recognition of the de facto situation -- that there are now two completely independent areas in Palestine. (See same N.Y. Times clipping). The Arabs now realize it, and admit it; a widely printed UP dispatch from Jerusalem, May 7, quotes a member of the Syrian Parliament as having said: "T he battle is all over. The Jewish state has arisen." The same dispatch quotes another influential Arab as saying: "We have saved the Arab half of Palestine." (N.Y. Times, May 8 -- clipping B).

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