British policy on Palestine is far from crystalized, despite Saturday’s Cabinet meeting, it was learned here today. According to informed sources, the Cabinet laid down certain general principles covering the British stand to be taken at the General Assembly, but its attitude may undergo considerable revision before the U.N. action on Palestine is completed.
The Cabinet sub-committee on Palestine is still in existence, and will continually review the situation as it develops during the discussions at the Assembly and behind the scenes, particularly the Anglo-American talks which will certainly take place after Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech-Jones, who is leaving tonight, arrives in the U.S.
(A Reuter dispatch from London today said that informed quarters described as “very poor guesswork” a report that Creech-Jones would try to persuade the U.S. to send troops to Palestine as the basis of the British Government’s agreement to the UNSCOP majority report. The dispatch quoted “political quarters” as feeling that the Colonial Minister would tell the Assembly Britain would relinquish her mandate and withdraw her troops unless the U.N. made proposals for sharing Britain’s burden.)
The Cabinet sub-committee consists at present only of Ivor Thomas, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Colonial Affairs and Defense Minister A.V. Alexander, since Foreign Minister Bevin, the third member, is in Paris. It had been planned to devote another Cabinet meeting to Palestine, but authoritative quarters said that no further meeting was scheduled for this week.
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