A conference on “Palestine and European Jewry,” to which Arab and Jewish leaders will be summoned, will be held here shortly, the Foreign Office announced today.
Although the date of the conference was not announced, authoritative quarters said it would probably be held within the next three or four weeks and almost certainly before the United Nations General Assembly convenes in New York on Sept. 23.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, an American member of the Jewish Agency executive, today sent a note to Henry Grady, chief of the U.S. delegation conferring on Palestine, informing him that the Jewish Agency could not participate in the round-table discussions, if the question of the admission of 100,000 Jews into Palestine was to become part of the negotiations and, therefore, contingent on Arab consent. Jewish public opinion in the United States and the Zionist movement throughout the world would consider this a reversal of the policy of the U.S. Government, he said.
The conference is a result of exchanges between the British Government and the Arab states, dating back to May 20, when the Arab League suggested that there be a meeting of the interested parties before the recommendations of the Anglo-American inquiry committee were implemented.
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