The British Cabinet is scheduled to meet tomorrow discuss the Palestine situation in relation to the American trusteeship proposal the United Nations.
Among the specific points to be thrashed out, it is understood, will be how Britain will raise a force to assist the United States and France impose the American ###an, in the event the U.N. General Assembly accepts it. Reports here tend to indi##te the government favors raising such a force by “volunteer” methods because the sending of conscripts is expected to raise a storm of protests.
Minister of War Emanuel Shinwell last night told a meeting at Newcastle that ####s government is determined to end the Palestine Mandate on May 15, regardless of ##### rumors to the contrary. A spokesman for the Foreign Office made much the same announcement earlier in the day in reply to questions based on reports that the new ###s, trusteeship plan was causing the British Government to halt the evacuation of Palestine. No further official statement on the matter is expected before Wednesday ##en Foreign secretary Ernest Bevin is slated to speak in Commons in reply to a ##estion asking under what circumstances the government is prepared to continue the administration of Palestine.
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