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OCR Page 1 of 8TROMAN LIBRARY
Statement
MAX 9,1948 1948
GOVERNMENT
Events during the past several days underline the importance
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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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