Why President Truman Overrode State Department Warning on Palestine-Israel
Donald Neff is author of Fallen Pillars: US. Policy Toward Palestine and Israel since 1945, as well as of the 1988 Warriors trilogy. This essay is reprinted from the September-October 1994 issue of The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (P.O. Box 53062, Washington, DC 20009). On September 22, 1947, Loy Henderson strongly warned Secretary…