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MEMORANDUM TO THE PRESIDENT:
During the course of my mission relating to air
agreements between the United States and India and Iraq, the
Palestine question was on several occasions raised by represent-
atives of these two governments. I necessarily took the posi-
tion on all these occasions that the matter was outside the
scope of my assignment and that I was not in a position to
discuss it. However, certain of the individuals involved
made the specific request that on my return I convey to you
the feelings they expressed. I told these gentlemen that I
would do so, and am therefore writing you this memorandum.
You will, I am sure, appreciate that in repeating
the observations that were made to me I am not myself attempting
to pass in any way upon the merits of the contentions, or to
express any personal view on the policy involved.
On November 7th Mr. George R. Merrell, our Charge
d'Affaires in New Delhi and I had a long talk with Liaquat Ali
Khan, Finance Minister in the Indian Interim Government and
the leading Moslem League member of that Cabinet. The meeting
was one of several that we had with leading Cabinet members
preliminary to their final consideration of various important
questions in connection with our proposed air agreement.
Liaquat Ali Khan took the occasion to deliver a speech of
perhaps twenty minutes on his views, which he said were shared
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