The British Cabinet today started discussing Palestine, ## special emphasis on the security situation. The Cabinet is expected to set a ## for the termination of the Palestine Mandate before the current discussion is completed.
A report from New York that the British Government had informed the State Department of its intention to terminate the Mandate on May 1, was denied today by foreign Office spokesman, who termed it “completely untrue.” The spokesman also ##ed a report that the withdrawal of the British troops from Palestine will be extended until October 1. The government has not changed its decision to complete the evacuation by August 1.
At the same time, Reuters today quoted “informed quarters” in London as ##dicting that Britain will surrender the Mandate on May 1. An early intimation ## that date would be given to the U.N. Implementation Commission by Sir Alexander ##ogan, head of the British delegation at the United Nations, the Reuters report Stated. So far the British Government has not announced any decision either to the United Nations or to the United States, the report said.A full dress debate on Palestine will be held in the House of Commons next Thursday and Friday, it was officially announced here today. Colonial Secretary ##hur Creech-Jones was scheduled to make his promised statement on Palestine during ##at debate, but the opposition in Parliament today demanded that he make his statement prior to the debate. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin will also speak.
London newspapers today reported that hundreds of British veterans are seeking ## volunteer in the Arab forces to fight the Jewish state. Simultaneously, the Jewish Agency here stated that several hundred war veterans have offered to join ## Jewish forces in Palestine. The London Daily Express says that the Britons ## wish to join the Arabs are advised by the headquarters of the Palestine Arab political mission here to write directly to the defense minister of the state in ## army they wish to serve.
The London Express today published an article by Captain Roy A. Farran ## “I am for the Arabs–they deserve to win.” Farran is the British officer ## fled Palestine immediately after the dismissal of a murder charge against him ##ing from the presumed kidnapping and murder of a 16-year-old Jewish youth. The ## also published an article by former Commander Ashe Lincoln presenting the Jewish point of view.
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