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Memorandum from Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew to President Harry S. Truman
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON
May 26, 1945.
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
Subject: The American Christian Palestine Association.
The American Christian Palestine Association, which
has among its members Senators Wagner, Pepper and Van-
denberg, and whose secretary is Helen Douglas of Cali-
fornia, has started something in the Senate which may
have very embarrassing results. This Association has
initiated a letter to the President which is being
circulated for signature in the Senate by Senators
Wagner and Taft with the purpose of having it signed by
as many Senators as possible. Already a considerable
number of the Senators haye signed it. The document
calls for two objectives: / unlimited Jewish immigra-
tion into Palestine, and (2) the creation of an
independent Jewish State.
This is certainly a most unfortunate moment to
raise the Palestine problem. The five Arab states
are united in a way that they have never been before
in their opposition to French policy in Syria and
Lebanon, and we are trying to calm the troubled waters
by inducing the French to exercise the utmost caution.
The injection of the Jewish-Arab problem sponsored by
a large number of United States Senators would merely
tend to inflame the more the Arab populations.
Acting Secretary