Foreign Relations of the United States, 1947, The Near East and Africa, Volume V

867N.01/2–947: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Bevin)¹

secret

Washington, February 11, 1947—7 p. m.

I am sending you this interim line to thank you for your most helpful explanatory message on your recent Palestine proposals. I am glad that you found my remarks to the press helpful. I was most anxious not to embarrass you in your difficult and delicate task. I am studying the proposals and if questions occur to me to which I cannot get answers here I may bother you with them.

Marshall

1. Sent to London as Department telegram 697, with the instruction: “Please deliver to Mr. Bevin the following message from the Secretary.”