Draft Memorandum, The Position of the United States with Respect to Palestine
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YOP SEGRES
E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D)
STATE LTR 1-18-73
By NLT / NARS Date 2-20-73
DRAFT
February 17, 1948
THE POSITION OF THE UNITED STATES WITH RESPECT
TO PALESTINE
THE PROBLEM
1. To issess and appreise the position of the United States with
respect to Phlestine, taking into consideration the security interests
of the United States in the Mediterranean and Mdde East Areas.
ANALYSIS
2. The National Security Council has agreed that "...The security
of the Fastern Mediterrenean and of the Middle Wast is vital to the
security of the United States
"
3. The United States Government, on the basis of high motives and
in consideration of conditions existing at the time, voted in favor of
the General Assembly Sesolution of 29 November 1947, recommending the
Plan for Partition of Palestine. In so doing our government assumed 8
moral obligation, along with the other nembers of the UM who voted for
the resolution, to lond its support honestly and courageously to the
implementation of that resolution. Our government cannot without cause
fail to fulfill this moral obligation. The most impelling cause for any
change in our position on the Palestine problem would be a demonstration
of the incompatibility of our present position with the security of our own
nation.
4. The greatest threat to the security or the United States and to
international peace to the USSR and its aggressive program of Communist
expansion.
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