A Calculated Risk

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Evan M. Wilson. A Calculated Risk

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION: THE SETTING AND CAST OF CHARACTERS

1. THE BILTMORE PROGRAM CALLS FOR A JEWISH STATE

2. THE UNITED STATES FINDS A POLICY

3. PALESTINE BECOMES A POLITICAL ISSUE

4. ROOSEVELT'S LAST MONTHS

5. PRESIDENT TRUMAN AND THE 100,000 JEWS

6. THE ABORTIVE ATTEMPT AT ANGLO-AMERICAN COOPERATION

7. BRIDGIN THE GAP: LONDON CONFERENCE BREAKS DOWN

8. PALESTINE BEFORE THE UNITED NATIONS

9. THE STATE OF ISRAEL IS BORN

EPILOGUE

APPENDIXES

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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To AMBASSADOR RICHARD B. PARKER, who inspired me to undertake this project, and to all of my colleagues in the old Near East Division of the State Department, who encouraged me to complete it.

To begin with, however, I want to express my warm thanks to several of my colleagues from the old State Department who read my manuscript and made many helpful suggestions: Loy W. Henderson, Gordon P. Merriam, Fraser Wilkins, and Robert M. McClintock. The resulting book is really a joint effort on the part of all of us.

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Palestine was an issue both in our foreign relations and in our domestic politics. Thus it tended to be handled in two separate ways, and the State Department often did not know what the White House was doing. Roosevelt had an assistant David K. Niles—who dealt with minority groups, including the Jewish community, and thus served as the Jews’ point of contact at the White House and was often consulted by the President regarding Palestine. Ironically, Niles was housed in the old State Department building, directly below Murray and Henderson, but we never saw him and had no idea of his activities.

Under Truman, Niles continued to be one of the most influential Presidential advisers on Palestine. Another was Judge Samuel Rosenman, who was Special Counsel to the President from 1943 to mid-1946, when he was succeeded by Clark M. Clifford, who was to play a key role at the time of Truman's recognition of Israel.

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