Joseph Keenan, newly-appointed U.S. representative on the U.N. Palestine Conciliation Commission discussed “matters relating to Palestine” over the week-end with President Truman, but would not elaborate on the details of their talk.
He told reporters after his call, however, that, without any implications affecting either party in the Palestine controversy, it was his personal observation that “any people who have not yet learned that brute force cannot be substituted for reason are very blind.” Asked if he had been given a Presidential message to take to either of the parties in Palestine, Keenen replied that he had no messages to deliver.
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