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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\nMinister Attlee, Foreign Secretary Bevin and other British\nofficials, that in the circumstances we should not involve\nourselves in the matter beyond the steps which we have\nalready taken.\n2. If we yield to the pressure of highly organized\nZionist groups just now and make statements calculated\nto give support to their policies of the moment, we shall\nmerely be encouraging them to make fresh demands and to\napply pressure in the future whenever they conceive it to\nbe in their interest for this Government to make further\nstatements on their behalf. In any event, we do not be-\nlieve that, i thout sacrificing the public interests, we\nshall be able to go far and fast enough in rendering them\nsupport to keep them satisified very long. It seems to us\nthat it would be wiser to make it clear to them now in a\nmost friendly manner that the Government itself must deter-\nmine when it is in the interests of the United States to\nmake statements with regard to Palestine and that in the\npresent instance, the Government is of the opinion that it\nis in the best interests of the United States and for that\nmatter of the Zionists themselves for it to remain silent.\n3. Any statement by this Government approving parti-\ntion would mean that we had gone contrary to the recommen-\ndations both of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry\nand of the experts who drew up the Morrison-Grady - scheme.\nThis would undoubtedly give rise to the impression that\nwe are adopting a policy on an important matter in order\nto satisfy a particular Zionist group.\n4. The attitude of the Arab world toward the United\nStates has become progressively hostile in the last few\nmonths. Our Joint Chiefs of Staff, who feel that the\nUnited States has a vital security interest in the Middle\nEast, have urged that we take no action with regard to\nPalestine which might orient the peoples of the entire\narea away from the Western Powers. The Arabs have always\nbeen fundamentally opposed to the partition of Palestine\nand their adverse reaction to a statement by us favoring\nthat solution would be intensified by the knowledge that\nwe have taken such a position only after it has been ad-\nhered to by certain Zionist leaders.\nIt"
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