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Letter from Chaim Weizmann to President Harry S. Truman
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ADDRESS "WALDORFNEWYORK" ELDORADO 5
Polation,
WALDORF-ASTORIA
PARK AND LEXINGTON AVENUES // 49TH AND 50 TH STREETS // NEW YORK 22/
May 26, 1948
The President
The White House
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. President:
Before leaving the shores of the United States, I should like to
express to you my warmest thanks for the friendly reception which you
accorded me yesterday and for the kind hospitality given to Mrs. Weizmann
and myself and to the members of my party at Blair House. This official
visit, coming soon after the recognition given to the new State of Israel,
will be a source of satisfaction and encouragement to my people.
I trust that the two questions of military assistance, and of
financial help for constructive work and for the absorption of Jewish
Displaced Persons, will receive urgent and favorable consideration. I
shall not go into the details here as these are contained in the aide
memoire which I had the opportunity of leaving with you.
There is, however, one matter to which I only made brief refer-
ence and which is of some importance to us. We are anxious that the
United States recognition of the State of Israel should be put on a
regular basis by an exchange of diplomatic representatives. In antici-
pation of this arrangement, we have designated Mr. Eliahu Epstein, who
is now acting as the representative of the Provisional Government of
Israel in this country, as the prospective Minister in Washington. Mr.
Epstein, a Palestinian with intimate knowledge of the whole Middle East,
has spent the last three years in Washington as the representative of
the Jewish Agency for Palestine and has done invaluable work in explain-
ing our aims, problems and activities. I am confident that he will be
successful in the new task of increasing the ties between Israel and the
United States and of deepening the friendly relations between the two
peoples. I hope, Mr. President, that it may be possible for the United
States to appoint a Minister to Israel at a very early date.
In taking my leave of you, Mr. President, I should like warmly
to commend Mr. Epstein in whom I have every confidence.
Yours very sincerely,
Chtteigman