Office of the Historian

Elsey Papers

President Truman to the Secretary of State

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[St. Thomas,] February 22, 1948—4:55 p. m. EST.

Blue 4. Your working draft of recommended basic position1 for Security Council discussion Tuesday received. I approve in principle this basic position. I want to make it clear, however, that nothing should be presented to Security Council that could be interpreted as a recession on our part from the position we took in the General Assembly.2 Send final draft of Austin’s remarks for my consideration.

  1. See p. 637.↩
  2. On November 29, 1947, i.e., in support of the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states.↩