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U.S. Submits New Plan to Arabs, Cairo Report Say; Urges Three-month Palestine Truce

May 12, 1948
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The U.S. has submitted a new plan for a true in all of Palestine to the Arab states, it was reliably learned here today. The proposal, which was considered by the Egyptian Cabinet last night, would establish a ceasefire throughout Palestine for a minimum of three months which could be extended very three months thereafter and would also set up a neutral administration in the country.

(In Washington, State Department press representative Lincoln White told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he could neither defend nor confirm the report, nor could the Department make any comment on it.)

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