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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006000040050-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2006
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: August 5, 1948
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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re ar detailed PalesBne recommendations--US
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s that the British 1E'ore
Is preparing detailed proposals for a permanent division ofe
Palestine along the lines of the present de facto Arab- ewis
frontiers and hopes for an earl j h
views on the sub ?ect, y integration of US and British Accor visionally thud; that the best Pa~lestine~olati the British pro-
circumstances would follow the lines of Count ernadott 's nt
previous proposals but would omit,
any specific provisions for economic uon gr0"ds of nion. The plan wed y,
thus provide for: (a) an indepefldent Israel including most if
not all of Galilee ; and (b) an Arab Negeb, which would be governed as desired ' ikg the Arabs. the
order to reassure both sides, specific frontiers would be sub-
ject to international guarantees. The plan would
form of include some
international responsibility for Jerusalem which might
place the city under Arab soverei ?n-t
made a free port or placed under some m would either
control. of inter rnational
Douglas adds that the British doubt whether either the
Arabs or the Jews would accept set
to come, and that the Fore p ch a solution for some time
need for closely coordinated office
efforts in consequently stresses the
UN action and In bringing pressure t
forceful
o bear on the
two parties.
B. Isr e i Governor of 3~eru9al~rm