Twenty-nine Republican Congressmen from seventeen states today addressed a joint letter to Secretary of State George C. Marshall and Warren R. Austin, United States representative to the special United Nations session on Palestine, expressing their deep “concern” with the “performance” of the British promise in the Palestine Mandate to establish “the Jewish National Home in Palestine.”
The letter pointed out that the United States had conditioned its agreement to a special session of the General Assembly, as proposed by Great Britain, on “a concrete formulation of the problem” by Britain, and asked the following questions: 1. What proposals has Britain made on Palestine; 2. Whether the United States interprets Article 79 of the U.N. Charter on trusteeship as meaning this nation is “directly concerned” in the disposition of Palestine; 3. If the United States has formulated its policy regarding Palestine and the nature of this policy.
The Congressmen declared that their letter implied “no criticism or direction, nor any variance from the bi-partisan foreign policy of the United States in respect to Palestine,” but sought “only to ascertain what will be done by the executive branch so that we may consider how the Congress can contribute its part in bringing about a just solution.”
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