Memorandum, Written Oral Statement

DECLASSIFIED SECRET E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) Dept. of State letter, By NLT- He NARS Date A. 26.75 WRITTEN ORAL STATEMENT The American Government, for domestic and other reasons, would find it easier to support in the United Nations and elsewhere the solution of the Palestine problem calling for partition and the setting up of a viable Jewish state than any other solution at present under consideration. In case the British Government after careful study and further discussion should come to the conclusion that the partition solution would be unworkable and if it should be successful in working out in consultation with Arabs and Jews a solution, which in its opinion could successfully be put into effect, lying somewhere between the partition plan and the Morrison-Grady canton- ization plan, the American Government would be disposed to give such a solution its support. It would be somewhat difficult in view of the atti- tude of the American public for the American Government to give support to the cantonization plan as proposed by Morrison-Grady. It would be much more difficult for it to support any solution which does not provide for the entry in the near future into Palestine of at least 100,000 displaced European Jews and for Jewish immigration at a reasonable rate thereafter. It is assumed that the SECRET