Office of the Historian

501.BB Palestine/10–148: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Acting Secretary of State

top secret
urgent
Paris, October 1, 1948—noon.

Martel 21. Personal and Eyes only for Lovett from the Secretary, Please deliver following message to President:

Dulles1 received a message from Dewey2 Wednesday requesting him to meet Dewey on his return to New York and bring him up to date on developments here. He leaves Sunday for quick turn around.

Dulles referred this morning to reported article in New York Post that there was a split between the two of us on Palestine, observing that this was probably inspired to force a statement out of Dulles or Dewey.

I am very grateful to you for resisting what I imagine are great pressures to qualify the stand I have taken. Over here I am receiving strong if not violent Jewish demands, particularly from Congressional Jews and at same time equal pressures in formal public statements from Arab delegates in convention on other side of the question. The Jewish attacks are gradually resulting in modifying the Arab resistance to the Bernadotte Plan as they are not now so convinced that I am taking a purely pro-Jewish stand. The opposite, and I trust equal reactions may cancel each other to the long sought solution.

Marshall
  1. John Foster Dulles, Member of the United States Delegation to the General Assembly and a senior spokesman for the Republican Party on foreign policy.↩
  2. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, nominee of the Republican Party for President of the United States.↩