867N.01/5–646: Telegram

The Chargé in Saudi Arabia (Sands) to the Secretary of State

secret
urgent

129. (1) Sheikh Iusuf Yassin Deputy FonMin returned yesterday afternoon from Riyadh and departed early this morning for Cairo where he will discuss Palestine inquiry report with Arab League officials (Legtel 127, May 529). He told me on arrival only that the reaction of the King to the report was “very bad”.

(2) I am informed that staff members of British Legation here in conversation with Saudis are successfully conveying impression that recommendation for entry of hundred thousand Jews into Palestine was one purely of American origin against which British members struggled unsuccessfully.

Sands
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