British official circles today indicated that no matter what Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s personal feelings may be with regard to the white Paper, “he will not allow his personal predilections stand in the way of continuity of the decisions of the state.”
Churchill had opposed the White Paper prior to becoming head of the British Government. But officials here, in discussing his attitude towards the document, emphasized that in a democracy of the British type successive governments consider that they have collective, as distinct from individual, responsibility.
Britain remains pledged to solve the Palestine problem on the basis of Arab-Jewish compromise and not on the basis of recommendations suggested by “outside parties,” the official commented. The solutions suggested by “outside parties,” they said, range from the extreme Zionist demand for unrestricted Jewish immigration and the establishment of a Jewish Commonwealth in the whole of Palestine and Trans-jordan, to extreme Arab demand that all further Jewish immigration to Palestine be barred.
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