Editorial Note
On May 26, the Chargé in Transjordan, Wells Stabler, reported that after drafting telegram 216 ( supra) he received a personal letter concerning the Palestine situation from King Abdullah, the text of which he transmitted to the Department in telegram 217, May 26, 4 p. m. from Amman (867N.01/5–2649).
King Abdullah reviewed his position vis-á-vis Palestine in a conversation with Stabler on May 28 and made a “strong plea that US should take solution Palestine problem into its hands and should bring about imposition settlement based on partition or on aid [other?] plan equitable to both Transjordan and Israel.” (Telegram 222, May 30, 3 p. m., from Amman, 867 N.01/5–3049)