Memorandum from David Niles to President Harry S. Truman, with Attachment and Handwritten Note

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THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON May 12, 1947. MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT: You have received a copy of Docu- mentary Record submitted to the United Nations. This contains very confiden- tial material that is in the files of the State Department. I think it is important to find out how it got out. It is very dam- aging evidence that the Arab representa- tives now at UNO were allies of Hitler. There is also included in this material the diary of the Grand Mufti, which Justice Jackson found at Nuremberg. Copies of this document have already gone to all the Members of Congress. Document- the ARAB HiGHER Combarid K. hiles DAVID K. NILES Dar. Thanks the glad you ar sent about it I knew St. and all afout purported I don't like it. We could lose settled this thing if U.S. politics had fees kept out oft. Tenor Silver are