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    "ocrText": "DEPARTMENT OF STATE\nOFFICE OF THE SECRETARY\nWASHINGTON\nJuly 19, 1949\nI S us U It I\nSUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS\nPALESTINE\nOur Ambassador in Tel Aviv says that it is evident that\nIsrael feels the need for the Palestine Conciliation\nCommission to be in a position to present tangible evidence of progress\ntoward the solution of the Palestine problem to the UN General Assembly\nin September. The Israeli representative at Lausanne will take with\nhim a more \"elastic program, including an offer on the refugee problem\nwhich will be more definite and larger than those previously made by\nthe Israelis. According to the Turkish delegation at Lausanne the\nIsraelis have given indications that they would be willing to turn\nover a part of the Negeb to the Arabs if the latter insist and if the\nIsraeli government were sure that the Arabs really want peace.\nCHINA\nAmbassador Stuart states that he is steadily becoming\nmore convinced that a visit by him to Canton should be\navoided. He says that all reports indicate that the Communist leaders\nare chagrined by his failure to visit Peiping and points out that a\nvisit to Canton, and a consequently unavoidable meeting with Chiang\nKai-shek, would, under the circumstances, appear to the Communists as\na studied insult. He anticipates that the consequences would be an\nincrease in the difficulties now being faced by Americans in Shanghai\nand other Chinese cities and he does not preclude the possibility of\nretaliatory measures being taken against the Embassy and our other\nofficial establishments in China. Stuart has not received any reply\nfrom the Communist authorities in Peiping on the question of exit\npermits for himself and his party and has consequently again had to\ndelay his departure.\nDECLASSIFIED\nE.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402\nState Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979\nBy NLT-WC\nNARS, Date 11-13-10\nT"
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