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Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams
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Records of the Naval Aide to the President (Truman Administration)
State Department Briefs Files
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Porter, Paul Aldermandt, 1904-1975
Elath, Eliahu, 1903-1990
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
WASHINGTON
August 1, 1949
SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS
ISRAEL
The Israeli Ambassador here has informed us that Israel has
decided to permit the return of 100,000 Arab refugees in
order to demonstrate Israel's willingness to cooperate with the US and
in order to solve the refugee problem. The Israeli Ambassador said this
decision was reached in spite of the opinion of Israeli experts that it
would be "disastrous" for security and economic reasons.
Although he did not mention numbers, the Israeli delegate to the
Lausanne talks on Palestine has informed Porter that "because of US
pressure Israel is now willing to discuss the refugee problem out of
the context of a final Palestine settlement. Israel would be prepared
if the Palestine Commission so desires to accept a specific number of
refugees for repatriation, which could not begin until: 1) an overall
repatriation plan is drawn up and means for its operation are assured;
and 2) there is evidence of definite progress toward a final settlement.
The Israeli delegate added that the Commission would have a "bitter
wrangle" over any plan involving reduction of Israel-occupied territory.
The Israeli Legation has informed the British Foreign Office that
it may raise in the Security Council the question of Egypt's blockade
of the Suez Canal, according to Embassy London. A British Foreign
Office official has informed Embassy London that discussion of this
question in the SC would be "embarrassing" to the UK because it would
involve the entire issue of the Suez Canal concession.
CHINA
We have instructed Embassy London to inform the British
Foreign Office on the highest level of our serious concern
that the British response to our proposals favoring the institution of
controls over exports to China represents far less than the absolute
minimum requirements for joint protective measures in the present China
situation. We feel that the failure to demonstrate effective western
control over exports of key importance to China's economy would represent
abandonment of the most important single instrument available for the
defense of western interests in the Far East. We feel that controls
must be established over items on the restricted as well as items on the
prohibited list, since the mutual security interests of the west must be
considered as much in terms of political and economic strategy as in
terms of direct military factors.
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979
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