Office of the Historian

867N.01/9–2945: Telegram

The Minister in Saudi Arabia (Eddy) to the Secretary of State

Jidda, September 29, 1945—noon.
[Received September 29—8:20 a.m.]

365. FonMin states King is preparing message to President Truman which will be given me to cable thru Department probably within 24 hours.

Message will seek clarification of radio reports that search of President Roosevelt’s papers fails to discover record of pledge to King re Palestine in which case King proposes to publish evidence including especially letter to him from President Roosevelt dated April 5, 1945 sent through this Legation as enclosure to Department’s instruction 263 of April 10, 1945.46

Eddy
  1. Instruction 263 not printed; for text of President Roosevelt’s letter of April 5, see p. 608.↩