Zionist leaders here expressed relief today at the news, which reached them indirectly, that the projected joint Anglo-American statement urging the postponement of discussion on Palestine until after the war has been quashed.
A draft of the statement has been on President Roosevelt’s desk for sometime. The President postponed approval of the text following representations made to him by Dr. Stephen S. Wise in behalf of the American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs.
While reports from Cairo stated that Col. Harold B. Hoskins, a special envoy of President Roosevelt, is now on his way back to the United States after delivering a letter from the President to King Ibn Saud which may have a bearing on Arab-Jewish relations in Palestine, it was learned here today that the Emergency Committee this week dispatched a special representative to Palestine, to study the situation there on the spot. The name of this representative will probably not be made public until he reaches Palestine.
In addition to this American-born Zionist leader who is authorized to speak in the name of all Zionist groups in the United States, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, the head of the Zionist political office in Washington, is also expected to leave for Palestine in the near future.
Information reaching here from Cairo states that a representative of the Jewish Agency for Palestine met in Cairo with important Arab leaders who are negotiating with Britain on the question of the formation of a pan-Arab federation. The nature of the conversations between the Jewish and the Arab representatives is not disclosed, but it was indicated that high Allied officials in Cairo have taken an interest in them.
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