867N.01/963
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Bingham) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 12.]
Sir: I have the honor to refer to the Department’s instruction No. 1942, September 20, 1937,44 directing the Embassy to investigate and report upon the statement made in a letter to The Times of August 18 that the treaty which it is proposed to conclude with respect to the Jewish State in Palestine would be negotiated with the Jewish Agency rather than with the Zionist Organization.
The question was discussed with the appropriate official who said that the Foreign Office had no information concerning such an announcement. He added in this general relation that the whole question of the modification of the Palestine mandate now seems much [Page 914] farther off than it did at the time the royal Commission’s report was issued and that the whole situation was still so fluid and the future still so uncertain that “we seem no where near the point where the question of negotiating a treaty will arise”.
Respectfully yours,
Counselor of Embassy
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