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...minutes past midnight, Palestine time, President Truman announced: "The U.S. Government recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new state of Israel." Delegates to the U.N. General Assembly meeting at Flushing Meadow heard the news in astonishment (see INTERNATIONAL), quickly wound up their 28 days of futile talk about "the Palestine problem...
...Post Facto. In Seattle, a magnolia tree was finally planted in Magnolia Park...
Chiefly responsible for this new diplomatic tack was 44-year-old Paul Daniels, the State Department's Director for American Republic Affairs. From long experience, Daniels had concluded that the policy of ignoring de facto governments was silly: it was a relic of the days of kingdoms and duchies; in today's world, nonrecognition, or the threat of it, frightened no one. Moreover, recognition or no, trade and communication between nations always seemed to continue; it was better to have an ambassador on hand to supervise them...
Career. A lawyer (corporations, estates), he has been elected to three public offices (Ohio State Representative 1921-26; State Senator 1931-32; U.S. Senator, 1938, re-elected 1944). He was defeated for the Republican presidential nomination in 1940 by Wendell Willkie. He has been de facto leader of the Senate on domestic affairs since January...
...Deal and later as majority boss on domestic issues-he has probably declared himself on more issues than any man in Congress. His outstanding political characteristic is his insistence on strict legal procedure. He criticized the Nürnberg trials on the grounds that they were ex post facto judgments, and therefore violations of American law. He has seldom altered his course because of public opinion. He calls himself a conservative liberal; his political trademark is: "Go Slow." He is hostile to Big Government, solicitous of the rights of the individual...