Draft Statement by President Harry S. Truman

DRAFT STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT As I pointed out last week, the American Government is not being represented at the present conversations in London relative to the future of Palestine. We are, however, deeply interested in the outcome of these conversations and hope that they will point the way to a settlement which may bring peace and prosperity to the people of Palestine. We also hope that before the conversations are concluded, representatives of the Jews, as well as of the Palestinian Arabs, may find it possible NATIONAL to participate. ARCHIVES UNIVERSITY SERVICE" In this regard, I am sure that the work of the Anglo- American Committee of Inquiry, under the chairmanship of Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson, Jr., and of the British and American group in which the alternates of the Cabinet Committee on Palestine and Related Problems participated under the chairmanship of Ambassador Henry F. Grady, will prove of real assistance to those who are now endeavoring to work out an equitable solution to the problem. I have already made it clear that this Govern- ment has not put forward any concrete proposals in connection with the present conversations, nor is it committed to any single