Powerful influences within the Foreign Office are at work attempting to prevent the handing over of authority to any established body in Palestine when the British withdraw, it was learned today from well informed sources.
There is a plot afoot, it is asserted, to produce chaos and bloodshed in order to embarrass the United Nations and justify the British contention that partition is impractical. Evidence is accumulating here that Britain wants to start the evacuation by January 1 of next year, no matter what the U.N. ultimately decides about the future of Palestine, and to leave the international body a legacy of disorder and confusion which will frustrate all efforts to implement an international decision.
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