United States Policy on Jerusalem, 1948 (original) (raw)

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  1. For a review of the formulation of the draft Statute for Jerusalem, see Questions Specifically Referred to the Trusteeship Council by the General Assembly, 1947-48 U.N.Y.B. 778, U.N. Sales No. 1949.1.13; H. EUGENE Bovis, THE JERUSALEM QUESTION, 1917-1968, at 48-52 (1971).
  2. For further discussion of State Department deviation from the pro-partition line which President Truman endorsed, see CLARK CLIFFORD, COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT: A MEMOIR ch. 1 (1991);
  3. ROBERT J. DONOVAN, CONFLICT AND CRISIS: THE PRESIDENCY OF HARRY S. TRUMAN, 1945-1948, at 372-79 (1st ed. 1977). But cf DEAN RUSK, AS I SAW IT 147 (Daniel S. Papp ed., 1st ed. 1990) (discussing President Truman's approval of the State Department's plan).
  4. In a conversation with British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin on December 5, 1947, Secretary of State George Marshall said that "the greatest fear of the US military authorities in regard to the question [of implementation of partition] was the presence of a Russian force in Palestine." See Letter from George Marshall, Secretary of State, to Lovett, Acting Secretary of State (Dec. 6, 1947), in BUREAU OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, PUB. No. 8592, 5 FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES 1301-02 (1971).
  5. The General Assembly created the post of United Nations Mediator in Palestine in 1948. G.A. Res. 186, U.N. GAOR, 2d Sess., Supp. No. 2, at 5, U.N. Doc. A/555 (1948).
  6. For the text of Bernadotte's suggestions, see U.N. SCOR, 3d Sess., Supp. 1, July 1948, at 18-21, U.N. Doc. S/863 (1948). Although Bernadotte presented his plan to the two parties on June 28, 1948, the Secretary-General of the Security Council did not release its text until July 4, 1948. Id. at 18.
  7. In his memoirs, Abba Eban, then serving as Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations at the time of Bernadotte's proposal, stated: "Since Jerusalem was the only city in the Middle East, and indeed in the world, in which Jews had been a majority for three quarters of a century, the effrontery of this proposal left us breathless." ABBA EBAN, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY 124 (1977).
  8. Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator on Palestine, U.N. GAOR, 3d
  9. Sess., Supp. No. 11, at 17, U.N. Doc. A/648 (1948).
  10. Id. at 18.