Which was really at that time, until the Second World War, not an important part to the US, but for the beginning of some commercial economic relations having to do with oil, of course. He did something which may have been the precedent for other American presidents: He sent a special envoy to the Middle East. In between, there were all kinds of negotiations with the British that also had their committees about what would be the future of the Middle East and Palestine. But then the most important decision had to be done: Should America support or not the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine? Would he go along with it and support this Jewish state once it’s being declared?