ABSTRACT
The demise of the AAC report was not immediate, nor was it dramatic. It was drawn out over a period of more than three months during which time a series of discussions between the United States and Britain were held in London. They began with the Brook-Harriman talks in June (led by Norman Brook, Secretary of the Cabinet, for Britain, and Averell Harriman, American Ambassador to the Court of St. James, for the United States) and continued with the Brook-Grady talks in July. Harry F.Grady was an American career diplomat and a member of the Cabinet Committee set up in Washington early in June to deal with the aftermath of the AAC Report (see below). The Anglo-American discussions-the first such joint talks on a Middle-Eastern subject since winter 1944, when Wallace Murray of the State Department Near Eastern Division negotiated in London regarding the relations between the two powers in the area-ended with the presentation in Parliament of the Morrison-Grady Plan for Provincial Autonomy in Palestine, on 31 July 1945, and the temporary withdrawal of the United States from involvement in the Palestine question. There remained for the AAC and its Report only the eulogy, and this was handsomely supplied by “Texas Joe” Hutcheson, two days later. The Grady team, he reported to his fellow commissioner, James McDonald,
left my room in Washington assuring me that they would take the Report as their Bible and insist on its being carried out as a whole… If what I have read of what they have done is correct, it appears like another case of Satan quoting Scripture to his purposes.1
