Memorandum from Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson to President Harry S. Truman
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON
April 17, 1947
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
Subject: Special Session of the General Assembly #
The special session of the General Assembly to consider the
Palestine question is expected to meet on April 28. The present plan
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is that this special session will limit its agenda to the appointment
of a committee to report back to the regular session of the General
Assembly in September. The question arises as to the composition of
this committee.
The State Department considers that our first choice should be a
small committee of comparatively disinterested states, excluding the
Big Five and the Arab States, which would ascertain the facts, narrow
the issues and offer alternative practicable solutions for the con-
sideration of the General Assembly. Such a committee would have the
advantage of providing a fresh approach and a consideration not unduly
influenced by public positions already taken by the more interested
governments. It has the disadvantage that it might be charged that the
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The members of such a committee might include:
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