867N.01/1885a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)
4767. Department’s 4483, July 26, 7 p.m.86 Please inform the Foreign Office that following further discussions with the War Department it has been decided not to issue the proposed joint statement regarding Palestine. It had been our understanding that the military authorities considered the security situation in the Middle East to be such as to require some action calculated to reduce agitation and to eliminate the possibility of disturbances in Palestine. Upon reexamining the matter, however, the War Department has come to the conclusion that the security situation is not so serious as to require any action at this time. In as much as the sole purpose of the proposed statement was to ameliorate a condition which was thought to be dangerous to the military security of Allied forces in the Middle East no basis now exists, so far as the United States is concerned, for issuing the statement.
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