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TRU
S.
NATIONAL
ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS
SERVICE"
I'MEDIATE RELEASE
COVERNMENT
FEBRUARY 26, 1947
The impression that has arisen from yesterday's debate in
the British Parliament that America's interest in Palestine and the
settlement of Jews there is motivated by partisan and local politics
is most unfortunate and misleading.
The President's statement of October 4, 1946, which was re-
ferred to in that debate, merely reaffirmed the attitude toward
Palestine and Jewish immigration into Palestine which the United
States Government has publicly expressed since the summer of 1945.
This attitude was and is based upon the desire of the President to
advance a just solution of the Palestine problem. Our position on
this subject was communicated to the British Government by the President
in his letter to Prime Minister Attlee on August 31, 1945, which was
publicly released by the President on November 13, 1945, when he
announced the establishment of the joint Anglo-American Committee of
Inquiry. The statement of October 4, 1946, reiterated this Government's
position, which was already fully known to all parties to the Palestine
negotiations.
America's interest in Palestine is of long and continuing
standing. It is a deep and abiding interest shared by our people
without regard to their political affiliation.
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