867N.01/1224: Telegram
The Consul General at Jerusalem (Wadsworth) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 29—10:38 a.m.]
Department’s October 27, 7 p.m. Since despatching my telegram of October 25, 6 p.m., I have received four representative Arab delegations. All associated themselves with the views quoted in that telegram, emphasized the national character of the current revolt and their fear of Jewish domination, recalled America’s traditional friendship for the Arab Near East and advocacy of the principles of self-determination and voiced particularly the hope that the Palestine Arab case would be placed fully and sympathetically before the President [Page 976] whose views on the Palestine problem they fear have been unduly influenced by the reported recent wave of Jewish propaganda designed to obtain his intervention with the British Government to the end that the policy of the Balfour Declaration shall be continued.
They urge too that the Department study carefully the resolutions of the Cairo Arab conference as the most recent effective restatement of their case (see Cairo Legation’s air mail despatches of October 2199).
To each delegation and to other inquirers I have given copies of the Anglo-American exchange notes of last year and of the Department’s public statement and the President’s letter published in Radio Bulletins 241 and 248.