Foreign Minister Bevin’s scheduled statement on Palestine will be made in the House of Commons within the next day or two, Arthur Greenwood, acting leader of the House announced today. A Foreign Office spokesman said that Bevin was tentatively scheduled to speak tomorrow.
Both Bevin and Colonial Secretary Arhtur Creech-Jones will address a private meeting of Labor M.P.’s on Wednesday to explain the government’s action on Palestine. Bevin is understood to be anxious to win over pro-Zionist Laborites, who feel that the government has yielded to Arab pressure.
Replying to questioners, Greenwood said he was not certain yet whether the government would agree to a full-dress debate on the Palestine issue immediately after the Bevin statement, or schedule one for later. He added that the situation was still “fluid.”
Creech-Jones this afternoon receive a six-man delegation of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, headed by Prof. Selig Brodetsky, president.
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