Secretary of State Stimson again declined to make a statement of the attitude of the United States toward the Passfield White Paper on Palestine, when he was once more persistently questioned by newspaper correspondents at a press conference following a report that he had commenced to study the White Paper after having received the full text from London.
Yielding, however to persistent questioning by the correspondent as to what the American government has been called upon and intends to do in the present situation, Mr. Stimson said that only a few letters had been received calling for action but that pending further study of the situation there was nothing as yet before the American government justifying action.
His assertion that only a few letters had been received calling for action was an evident rejoinder to a press association dispatch alluding to “an outpouring of appeals for action from Jewish leaders in the United States”.
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