President Truman told his press conference today that he would cross that “bridge then he comes to it when asked if this government plans to recognize the now Jewish state in Palestine when the British Mandate ends. He said that he and Secretary of State George C. Marshall had discussed the Palestine question and other natters at their regular meeting yesterday.
As State Department official denied that Marshall had given Moshe Shertok a note to David Ben Gurion, premier-designate of the Jewish state, as was reported yesterday. What probably happened, the of official declared, is that Mai shall conveyed an oral message to Shertok who relayed it to Bon Gurion.
Meanwhile, a resolution calling for the amendment of the 19UO neutrality Act which would preserve the citizenship of Americans who “became members of an armed force made available to the United Nations, or of any other military organization designed to carry out the Palestine partition resolution, was introduced last night into the Senate and the House by Senator Warren Magnuson and Rep. Andrew L. Somers, respectively.
Prompt American recognition “of the existing Jewish state as the lawful authority over such areas under its control within the original boundaries of Palestine as fixed by the Mandate “should form the basis of U.S. foreign policy with regard to the Middle East, an “Emergency Conference to propose a “United States Policy for Palestine and the Middle East” which mot here this week-end recommended today. The parley was sponsored by the American League for a Free Palestine.
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