A spokesman for Secretary of Defense James ?restaltoday indicated that there is no disagreement between the Secretary and Administration on the policy of the U.S. Government with regard to the partition? of Palestine.
The spokesman emphasized that the statement made by Secretary Forrestal yesterday before a House sub-committee, in which he declared that the partition decision of the United Nations made American oil interests in the Arab countries secure, should not be interpreted as criticism of President Truman’s policy on Palestine, which was greatly instrumental in securing the U.N. partition resolution.
The Palestine issue will probably be brought up again on Friday when hear?gs will be held by a Congressional sub-committee on the American oil deal in the ?ab countries. Mr. Forrestal, who appeared yesterday before the House Sub-Committee Armed Services, said that hostile Arab response to the U.N. partition decision ?d made more insecure the pipelines feeding the Persian Gulf outlet. The danger. their being cut was not absent, he stated, adding that these pipelines were of ?ecial importance now to the American armed forces.
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