American Reply to Arab Protests Will Be Made from Washington, State Dept. Says

Any reply by the United States Government to the Egyptian memorandum of protest on the Palestine resolution, filed with the State Department last week, will be made in Washington, a spokesman of the State Department told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today.

A press report from Cairo said that United States Minister Alexander C. Kirk visited Egyptian Prime Minister Nahas Pasha yesterday to deliver a verbal reply to the Egyptian protest to Washington. Mr. Kirk was understood to have said that the congressional Resolution did not necessarily represent the position of the Administration.

Rep. Ranulf Compton, a Republican and co-sponsor of the Palestine resolution, today presented on the floor of the House “further evidence of a planned conspiracy within the Administration and among Administration supporters to prevent the members of the House and Senate from knowing or discussing the facts surrounding the mysterious decision to kill the Palestine resolution.”

Rep. Compton cited the withdrawal of a column by Drew Pearson on the Palestine resolution from all but the earliest edition of the Washington post. Without vouching for the accuracy of Pearson’s statements, Compton said, “I call attention to his column only to show that there is a determined attempt right here in Washington to silence discussions on the Palestine resolution. Each such attempt can be traced to the New Deal Administration.”

Drew Pearson, in his column, revealed that the developments on the Palestine resolution are a result of Major General Patrick J. Hurley’s talk with President Roosevelt on problems of the Near East. “Maj. Gen. Hurley,” Pearson wrote, “who conferred with Arab ruler Ibn Saud on Saudi Arabia’s oil, reported that the Arabs would revolt against further Jewish migration; Arab-Jewish riots would trouble British troops, might complicate a second front. The President, harassed by Hurley’s harangue on banefulness of the British, suggested the ex-Secretary of War report to the present Secretary, Henry L. Stimson. Hurley did. There was a meeting of minds. Stimson had sent a letter to Senator Connally, chairman of Foreign Relations on Jewish migration and later sent Chief of Staff Marshall to testify before Connally’s committee.”