The United States Government is closely watching the Palestine discussions in London, it was revealed in a letter by the State Department to the United Palestine Appeal made public today by Chairman Abba Hillel Silver. The British Government has pledged itself to enter into discussion immediately with the United States if any question arises involving the “international character of the Palestine Mandate with which it has been entrusted,” according to the letter from Wallace Murray, chief of the State Department’s Division of Near Eastern Affairs. The declaration was in acknowledgement of resolutions adopted by the National Conference for Palestine.
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