Secretary of State James F. Byrnes conferred here this morning with Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin on Palestine, but the subject of their talks was not disclosed.
(President Truman has directed Secretary of State Byrnes to urge upon Bevin the immediate reopening of immigration to Palestine and abolition of the land restriction on Jewish settlers, it was learned in Washington today from a source close to the President. Mr. Truman’s instructions were communicated to Byrnes in a trans-Atlantic telephone conversation.)
A short time afterwards, Colonial Secretary George Hall, who flew here from London, met with Bevin for a lengthy discussion of the entire Palestine situation. It is believed here that Bevin does not plan to relinquish direction of the British moves on Palestine and that he will take an active part in the negotiations with the Jews and Arabs planned for later this month.
The current meeting of the Jewish Agency executive here will probably conclude some time next week. The executive decided today to call off the scheduled World Zionist Conference, which was to open at the end of this month, because of technical difficulties.
The four-man Zionist delegation which saw Hall yesterday in London reported last night to the executive meeting on the results of the discussions, but an Agency spokesman refused to divulge the contents of their report.
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