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Ben-Gurion delivered a first address to the nation over Voice of Israel radio,
a day after the state was established. The only name he mentioned in his

address was Chaim Weizmann's.

from the government of the United States of America. Immediately after the proclamation
of the establishment of the state the representative of our Provisional Government in
Washington dispatched to the President of the United States an announcement of the
establishment of the state and the installment of a Provisional Government, and the
American government immediately issued the following response:

"This Government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in the

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