A joint Anglo-American committee of experts is to start work in London tomorrow on the study of a large number of questions connected with the implementation of the report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, a Foreign Office spokesman stated this morning.
It was officially emphasized that so far no decision has been taken by Britain on whether or not the report is to be implemented. The British Government will not take any decision on policy before receiving the written comments on the Palestine report due from Jews and Arabs by June 20, or before it has received a top-level decision from Washington on the extent to which United States assistance may be expected if the recommendations are put into effect. But, in the meanwhile, the joint committee of experts is to study the practical problems which will arise if Britain finally decides to act on the recommendations of the Palestine report.
The terms of reference of the experts will include the points mentioned yesterday in Washington by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. These covered methods of selecting Jewish immigrants and of arranging their transport and accommodation. The committee will also have nearly 20 other practical issues before it. But the recommendations of the experts on method, it was authoritatively emphasized this morning, will not prejudge the decision on whether or not to go ahead with the admission of the 100,000 Jewish immigrants to Palestine.
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