Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, The Near East and Africa, Volume VII

867N.01/10–446: Telegram

President Truman to the British Prime Minister (Attlee)⁷⁴

confidential

Washington, October 4, 1946—10 a.m.

My Dear Mr. Prime Minister: I am very sorry indeed that I cannot comply with the request you made of me in your message yesterday⁷⁵ to postpone making the statement on Palestine. For reasons which have been fully explained to the Ambassador here and by Mr. Byrnes to Mr. Bevin, it is imperative that I make my position clear today.⁷⁶

74. Sent to London as Department’s telegram 6988, with the instruction: “Please deliver the following message to the Prime Minister urgently from the President.”
75. Supra.
76. The President’s statement was released by the White House on October 4.