Message from President Harry S. Truman to Prime Minister Clement Attlee

COPY DECLASSIFIED DEPT OF STATE OUTGOING TELEGRAM E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) Dept. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973 By NLT- He NARS Date 7.16.75 838 June 5, 1946 AMEMBASSY 10 a.m. LONDON 4482 President requests you deliver following message to PRIMIN Attlee in reply to latter's telegram regarding Palestine received through BRITH EMB on May 27: QUOTE Thank you for sending the list of the subjects which your GOVT would like to have discussed by the experts of the two GOVTS in connection with the Palestine report. Our feeling is that the matter is one which will require a rather extensive exchange of views and we have certain plans for the setting up of a special group to handle this and related questions arising out of the report. We are proceeding to organize this group as quickly as we can and in the meantime we have turned your list over to the various experts in the State and War Depts with the request that they give it their immediate attention. We are hopeful that members of the group of experts will be able to proceed to London as soon as possible as suggested by Mr. Bevin. As we doubt however that our plans will be sufficiently advanced for our side to begin the discussions on the report as a whole at the time you suggest, namely one week prior to June 20, we are planning to send to London by that time one or more experts to discuss the urgent physical problems arising out of the transfer to Palestine of the 100,000 Jews mentioned in the report. SECRET NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE"