Office of the Historian

867N.01/1215: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Jerusalem (Wadsworth)97

Washington, October 27, 1938—7 p.m.

Your telegram of October 25, 6 p.m. It is suggested that, in your discretion, you might properly acquaint responsible Arab as well as Jewish inquirers with the Department’s public statement concerning Palestine.98 Should you deem it desirable, you may explain also that the statement represents no change in this Government’s position with respect to that question. (See, in this connection, Department’s Radio Bulletin No. 244.)

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  1. A similar telegram was sent on the same date to the Minister Resident In Iraq as No. 21.↩
  2. Press release of October 14, p. 953.↩