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DRAFT
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
As I pointed out last week, the American Government is
not being represented at the present conversations in London relative
to the future of Palestine. We are, however, deeply interested in
the outcome of these conversations and hope that they will point the
way to a settlement which may bring peace and prosperity to the people
of Palestine. We also hope that before the conversations are con-
cluded, representatives of the Jews, as well as the Palestinian Arabs,
may find it possible to participate.
In this regard, I am sure that the work of the Anglo-
American Committee of Inquiry, under the chairmanship of Judge Joseph C.
Hutcheson, Jr., and of the British and American group in which the
alternates of the Cabinet Committee on Palestine and Related Problems
participated under the chairmanship of Ambassador Henry F. Grady, will
prove of real assistance to those who are now endeavoring to work out
an equitable solution to the problem. I have already made it clear
that this Government has not put forward any concrete proposals in
connection with the present conversations, nor is it committed to any
single plan with regard to the future of Palestine. The United States
would, however, be prepared to give its support to any concrete pro- -
posals calling for the eventual establishment of an independent state
or of independent states in Palestine, provided such proposals would
be in keeping with the basic principles of the Mandate for Palestine
and would have a sufficient degree of acceptance among those most
directly concerned to give good grounds for the hope that they could
be successfully put into effect.