Office of the Historian

867N.01/1875: Telegram

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

Washington, July 22, 1943—2 p.m.

4403. Please inform the Foreign Office that this Government is entirely in accord with the redraft statement on Palestine transmitted by your 4592, July 14, 9 p.m. We intend to issue the statement here on July 27, at 12 o’clock noon, Eastern War Time, and presume that the British will desire to issue the statement simultaneously in London.

The statement to be issued here will contain a few inconsequential changes of wording to accord with American usage, but not affecting the substance thereof, which have been cleared with the British Embassy in Washington.

Please inform us at the earliest possible moment whether this procedure is agreeable to the Foreign Office.

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