Forty-one Democrats in the House and Senate have written a joint letter to Secretary of State George C. Marshall asking that he clarify the present attitude of the U.S. Government towards the Palestine situation.
The letter charges that U.S. Delegate Warren Austin’s statement before the U.N. Security Council “appeared to make distinctions so fine as to leave unanswered the question of our willingness to participate in the implementation of the Partition decision.”
The letter asked the Secretary to clear up the apparent contradiction between this statement and the one made by U.S. Deputy Delegate to the U.N. Herschel Johnson to the General Assembly last fall “which clearly indicated our recognition of the possibility of using force and indicated as clearly our willingness to do so.”
The letter states that there have been reports that the U.S. Government has made informal representations to certain foreign governments and to the Jewish Agency with a view to slowing down Jewish immigration into Palestine.
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