Force can overcome force, but a free society cannot long steel itself to dominate another people by sheer force. - Dean Acheson

Plainly plenty of work was waiting to be done. The question was: would the State Department do it? I proposed to have a shot at finding out.

I did not share President's view on the Palestine solution...The number that could be absorbed by Arab Palestine without creating a grave political problem would be inadequate, and to transform the country into a Jewish state capable of receiving a million or more immigrants would vastly exacerbate the political problem and imperil not only American but all Western influence in the Near East.

The qualities which produce the dogged, unbeatable courage of the British, personified at the time by Winston Churchill, can appear in other settings as stubbornness bordering on stupidity.