American trusteeship proposal for Palestine

The United States Proposal for Temporary United Nations Trusteeship for Palestine, announced by President Harry S. Truman on March 25, 1948, was a revised plan from the United States government for the future of the British Mandate for Palestine. The proposal came four months after the approval in the General Assembly of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine which had been vigorously supported by the United States, and represented a major shift in policy in response to the ongoing 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine. Truman was not against trusteeship per se, but believed that the State Department had gone behind his back. Ultimately, the US recognized Israel on May 14, 1948, abandoning the plan. The day after Truman recognized Israel, he wrote in a private letter to Bartley Crum that he still believed that the unitary state proposed by the joint Committee was the "correct solution", and they would "get it worked out that way".