Office of the Historian

501.BB Palestine/6–2749

Memorandum by the Acting Secretary of State to the President

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Washington, June 27, 1949.

There are attached herewith in accordance with your request of June 16, copies of cables covering talks held between Mr. Mark Ethridge, United States Representative on the Palestine Conciliation Commission, and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion.1

  1. The copies enclosed were telegrams from Jerusalem, as follows: Nos. 274, 275, and 277, April 9; 291, April 13; 308, April 19; and 312, April 20. All of these messages are printed in this compilation, except for No. 308; regarding No. 308, see footnote 1, p. 923.↩