Message from President Harry S. Truman to Prime Minister Clement Attlee

COPY Department of State OUTGOING Palestine TELEGRAM No paraphrase necessary. 4791 May 16, 1946 8 p.m. TOP DECRET DECLASSIFIED US URGENT E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) 9 1973 Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1072 AMEMBASSY, By NLT-HL NARS Date 7-16-75 LONDON. 4074 President desires the following message to be transmitted to Prime Minister Attlee in reply to latter's telegrams of May 9 and May 14: QUOTE I have given careful consideration to your two messages concerning Palestine and am pleased to note that you and your colleagues share our feeling regarding close collaboration between our two Govts. We are proceeding with arrangements for consultations with Arabs and Jews SO that the communication to them may be made on May 20. I hope that this will be agreeable to you and that your Govt will take concurrent action. I am still most anxious to have these consultations completed as early as possible but in view of "NATIONAL your feeling that two weeks would be too short I am agreeable to ARCHIVES AND SERVICE" extending the period to one month. We are drawing up a covering GOVERNMENT memorandum to be handed to Arab and Jewish representatives at the time their views on Committee's report are requested and we will furnish your Govt with an advance copy of this memorandum. We assume Brit Govt similarly will let us have an advance copy of any covering memorandum it may decide to use.