Office of the Historian

767N.90D/7–2049: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Legation in Syria

Washington, July 20, 1949—7 p. m.

288. Express to Syrian Govt gratification USG with regard signature Israeli-Syrian armistice agreement on July 201 and express hope this further step toward peace in Palestine will increase possibilities successful conclusion to meetings now taking place with PCC at Lausanne.2

Acheson
  1. For text, see SC, 4th yr., Special Supplement No. 2.↩
  2. This telegram was sent simultaneously, mutatis mutandis, to Tel Aviv as No. 461. Nos. 288 and 461 were repeated to New York.

    For the statement made by Secretary Acheson on July 20 on the signing of the Israeli-Syrian armistice, see Department of State Bulletin, August 8, 1949, p. 180.

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