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DECLASSIFIED
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
Dept.
of
State
letter,
3-85-25
-2-
By
NARS Datef.2675
British Government understands that the American Govern-
ment could not participate in the carrying out of any
solution by armed force. The President is planning in
the near future to recommend to Congress the enactment
of legislation which would permit immigration into the
United States of a substantial number of displaced per-
sons in Europe. Such legislation, if enacted, should
make it clear to both Arabs and Jews that the United
States is prepared on its part to accept an appropriate
share of Jewish displaced persons.
Since the British Government has special knowledge
derived from its many years' administration of Palestine
and since it is engaging in direct conversations with
Arabs and Jews, it should be in a better position than
any other Government to sense the kind of solution of
the Palestine problem which has the best possibility of
success. Furthermore, it will bear the primary responsi-
bility for putting into actual operation any plan for
Palestine which might be adopted. It would seem, there-
fore, that the decision as to the solution of the Palestine
problem must rest with the British Government.
The American Government, while realizing that the
British Government alone can decide the course which it
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