Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948, The Near East, South Asia, and Africa, Volume V, Part 2

Editorial Note

Offices of the Department prepared two further draft trusteeship agreements for Palestine on March 22 and 23; regarding the earlier drafts of February 11 and 12, see footnote 2, page 697. The draft of March 22 proposed that France, the United Kingdom, and the United States serve as administering authority; the draft of the following day designated the United Nations for this role. Both drafts are filed under 501.BB Palestine/3–2248; the authors are not identified.