Message from Prime Minister Clement Attlee to President Harry S. Truman, with Related Material
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OCR Page 1 of 6DECLASS.F.
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and S(D) or (4)
SIGNAL CENTER
Dept. of State letter, 7-15-75
SEGRET
F.R OF us 1946 VUE in PAGE 643
THE WHITE HOUSE
By NLT- HC
: NARS Date/11-24-75
4 July 1946
From: Prime Minister Attlee
To : The President
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Nr : 3025
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FERVICE
Personal and Top Secret.
I note from your telegram of 2nd July that the representatives of your
Cabinet Committee plan to leave for London on 13th July to begin the second
stage of the discussions on the Palestine report.
I am increasingly concerned about the timetable of these discussions in
relation to our parliamentary situation here. I have promised that the House
of Commons shall have an opportunity to debate the Palestine problem before
Parliament rises for the summer recess on 2nd August. Parliamentary interest
in this question is so keen that I could not deny facilities for this debate.
But you will realize that in such a debate I shall be placed in an embarrassing
position if no further progress has been made towards an agreement between our
two Governments on at least the main recommendations of the report. It would
certainly be very difficult to conduct such a debate in Parliament here while
the discussions between officials of the two Governments were still proceeding
in London.
I am also concerned about the effect in Palestine of delaying much longer
a decision on the important issues dealt with in the report.
We have also to take into account the notification from the Arab states
that, unless some arrangement satisfactory to them has been reached meanwhile,
they will bring this matter forward at the meeting of the Assembly of the United
Nations in September.
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