Office of the Historian

350/2–1850: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the United States Delegation to the Trusteeship Council, at Geneva

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Washington, February 18, 1950—1 p. m.

228. Deltc 24. Approve procedure suggested para 1 Tedel 82.1

Re para 2 reftel, your suggested deletion Art. 8 (a) would appear to include as residents persons who have left city involuntarily and who continue absent. Should not category of residents be limited to those actually residing in city at any given time.

Possible solution might be additional sub-para to include persons resident No. 29, 1947 who, having left Jerusalem as refugees, subsequently return for the purpose of residing there.2

If foregoing suggestion adopted first para Article 9 should be appropriately amended.

Acheson
  1. Supra.↩
  2. The Department of State’s instruction was carried out by Ambassador Sayre in the Trusteeship Council’s discussion during the afternoon of February 22. As reported by Geneva the following day, the Ambassador “sympathized with attempt avoid penalizing refugees but stressed they should be considered resident only if they returned to city. Otherwise absentee voting might be involved.” (Telegram 269, identified also as Tedel 95, 350/2–2350) His observations are presented in full in TC (VI), p. 232.↩