867N.01/11–1345
The Secretary of State to the Minister of Iraq (Jawdat)48
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of November 13,49 with which you transmitted a communication from your Government relative to the Palestine problem, and to inform you that the subject of this communication has received the careful consideration of the appropriate officials of the Department of State.
In this connection, I am certain that you have seen the announcement which the President of the United States made on November 13, 1945 relative to the establishment of a joint American-British Committee of Inquiry to study the question of the persecuted Jews in Europe and to make a further review of the Palestine problem. It will be observed that the terms of reference of this committee provide, among other things, that it is to hear the views of competent witnesses and to consult representative Arabs and Jews on the problems of Palestine.
Accept [etc.]