The British Cabinet was understood today to have discussed the Palestine situation but to have reached no decision because it did not yet have the report of the Woodhead Commission on the proposed three-way partition of the Holy Land.
Official circles denied that the Woodhead Commission’s report had yet been received by the Government and termed “pure speculation” a story by the Daily Telegraph that the report contained a plan for a unified Palestine State.
According to the Telegraph, the plan envisaged by the Woodhead Commission as a substitute for the Peel Commission’s partition proposal contains the following features:
1) A united Arab-Jewish State, with population at a status quo; 2) close restriction of all immigration, with probably an interim suspension; 3) continuance of the British administration; 4) stern action for restoration of order throughout Palestine; 5) drastic means to check anti-British propaganda.
Zionist circles scoffed at the reported plan, declaring it “in every way impracticable.”
The Daily Express urged today that the Government send Lord Samuel and Prince Aga Khan to Palestine to represent Jewish and Arab interests in an effort to find a peaceful solution to the conflict.
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