Untrue, Mr Pooh. For again and again in 1947 and also in 1948, that Department amply warned the US Presidential Office of its folly! (In promoting division, favouring a form of theocratic rule, disregarding the UN Charter preference for an ‘inclusive, non-discriminating venture in self-rule’ – as would have been properly in accord with the spirit of the League of Nation’s 1922 Mandate Document.)