867N.01/860: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Jerusalem (Wadsworth)

Your August 16, 1 p.m. The Department considers that it would be preferable merely to acknowledge the Mufti’s note and inform him that you are forwarding it to Washington.

Referring to the last sentence of the third paragraph of your telegram you will appreciate that our concern with respect to the protection of American interests, as opposed to other interests, is not based on any racial or religious considerations. Obviously an equal effort would be made to protect American interests in Palestine, as elsewhere, irrespective of the race or religion of the American nationals concerned.

The Embassy at London is being requested to send you by air mail text of recent correspondence with British Government.

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