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In conversations with local officials you authorized to draw on foregoing as may be appropriate.Rusk[Footnotes:]Source: Department of State, Central Files, 325.84/4–1561. Official Use Only; Priority. Drafted by Meyer; cleared by Ludlow , Palmer, Eilts ( NEA/NE), and Cargo ( IO/UNP ); and approved by Meyer who signed for Rusk. Sent to Khartoum, Amman, Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad, Jidda, Tripoli, Rabat, Tunis, Damascus, Jerusalem, and Dhahran and repeated to London, Paris, Ankara, Karachi, Tehran, Tel Aviv, and USUN . []
Annual Report of Director of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in Near East, 1 July 1959–30 June 1960; U.N. doc. A/4478. []
Adopted December 9, 1959; U.N. doc. A/4354. For text, see American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1959, pp. 1044–1046. []
Reference is to the resolution adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on December 11, 1948, that created the Palestine Conciliation Commission and defined its mission to seek a resolution to the Palestinian refugee problem. Article II dealt with the question of repatriation of those Palestinians who wished to return to their homes and of compensation for those who did not. For complete text, see Official Records of the Third Session of the General Assembly, Part I, 21 September–12 December, 1948, Resolutions; U.N. doc. A/810, pp. 21–25. Also printed in A Decade of American Foreign Policy: Basic Documents, 1941–1949, pp. 718–719. []
(Note: The location is spelled "Shtaura" in the original document, not "Shtatura" or "Shatura" as sometimes appears in the screenshot/post. The meeting referenced occurred in August 1960, aligning with the post's approximate date, though the telegram itself is from April 1961 looking back at "last August.")
The direct source page is: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v17/d34