Attitude of the United States toward the proposed political union of Syria and Iraq ¹

^1. For previous documentation on the attitude of the United States toward the question of Arab unity, see Foreign Relations, 1945, vol. viii, pp. 25 ff. For discussion on November 11 of the proposed political union by the Secretary of State and Ernest Bevin, the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, see the memorandum of their conversation, p. 1482.