Office of the Historian

501.BB Palestine/7–3048: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Embassy in the United Kingdom

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Washington, July 30, 1948—12 noon.

3011. For the Ambassador. Dept has decided to try to get Cadogan to ask for instructions permitting him to restrict discussion of refugee problem in SC initially to Arab refugee problem.1 Principal ground we will use is that prospects of Congressional action on DP legislation make general discussions of world refugee problem in SC undesirable. No action by Embassy is indicated at the present time.

Marshall
  1. London, on August 3, reported information from the British Foreign Office that the instructions to Cadogan were being considerably toned down in deference to United States views and that the British Treasury had set aside £100,000 for Arab refugees (telegram 3505, 501.BB Palestine/8–348).

    Cadogan actually addressed the Security Council on the refugee question on August 2, discussing both the Jewish and Arab refugee problems; for the text of his statement, see SC, 3rd yr., No. 100, p. 4.

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