Office of the Historian

867N.01/1160a: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Kennedy)

Washington, October 10, 1938—6 p.m.

614. Are we correct in understanding that no final decision respecting the future of Palestine is to be made until the report of the Partition Commission is in the hands of the Government toward the end of October? Any additional information that may be obtained regarding the Palestine situation and possible future developments there would be helpful.

In this general connection we assume that the assurances given in the Foreign Office note of July 7, 1937,71 that we would be kept informed of any proposal made to the Council of the League for modification of the mandate still hold good.

Welles
  1. See telegram No. 448, July 7, 1937, 9 p.m., from the Ambassador in the United kingdom, Foreign Relations, 1937, vol. ii, p. 891.↩