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    "ocrText": "- 3 -\nUnited Kingdom, however, had asked for recommendations of the General\nAssembly on the future government of Palestine. It did not withdraw\nthat request nor did it propose any other type of United Nations action.\nIt was up to the Assembly to recommend, specifically to the United\nKingdom, what it considered to be a fair and equitable solution which\ncould rightfully claim the cooperation of the people of Palestine and\nof the Mandatory Power as a final settlement for that troublesome question.\nWe and many other Members of this Assembly hoped that the expression\nof general world opinion would influence the Arabs to give the recommenda-\ntion of the Assembly a chance to work, that the United Kingdom would\ncooperate fully in carrying out those parts of the plan which it alone\ncould carry out since it was in Palestine as the Mandatory Power, and\nthat the Jews would make every possible effort to compose their differences\nwith the Arabs in an effort to reduce the violence which prevailed in\nPalestine. Events have not fulfilled these hopes.\nFollowing the passage of the resolution of the General Assembly\nof November 29, 1947, the United States attempted by diplomatic means\nto urge a moderate attitude upon the interested parties in order that\na peaceful implementation of the Plan for Partition with Economic Union\nmight be possible. We do not know what efforts have been made by other\nMembers of the United Nations to exert their influence along similar\nlines in support of the recommendation of the General Assembly. In any\nevent, such efforts were not successful.\nDECLASSIFIED\nE. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)\nSERVICE\"\nDept. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973\nBy NLT\nHe\n, NARS Date 7.16-70"
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