867N.01/11–2945: Telegram
The Chargé in Iraq ( Moose ) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 30—10:42 a.m.]
461. Dept’s 314 of October 23 communicated to Iraqi Prime Minister in note dated October 25. Prime Minister’s reply dated November 28 and received today reads as follows:
“I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of October 25, 1945 concerning the explanatory correspondence recently exchanged between His Excellency President Truman and Mr. Attlee Prime Minister of Great Britain on the extension of assistance to the homeless Jews in Europe. In expressing my pleasure at your assurance that no change has taken place in the American Govt’s policy enunciated in its previous statements on the situation in Palestine, I wish to draw attention to the fact that this assurance is not compatible with President Truman’s recent desire for permitting 100,000 Zionists to immigrate into Palestine which we regard as prejudicial to the fundamental issue in Palestine because the subject of immigration is really the basis of the problems and disturbances in Palestine.
I avail myself of this opportunity to express my highest consideration and respect. Signed Hamdi Al-Pachachi”