Office of the Historian

501.BB Palestine/5–2748: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the United States Representative at the United Nations (Austin)

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Washington, May 27, 1948—4 p. m.

332. The President has approved position paper whose text was set forth in Deptel 327, May 26, 4 p. m.,1 but we doubt whether you will find it useful to take action in accordance with these instructions today.

The President has likewise approved position which US should take in today’s meeting of SC, as contained in Deptel 331, May 27.2

Lovett
  1. The telegram is not printed; for the position paper, see p. 1027.↩
  2. Mr. Lovett stated, in a marginal notation on a draft copy of telegram 331, that the message was “Cleared by President 1245 May 27th”.↩