E Will Not Cooperate in U.N. Solution, Asks Jews to Halt Visaless Migration

The British Government does not intend to take any ## in the imposition of the U.N. decision on Palestine, either alone or in con##ion with other nations, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin today declared in Commons ## the course of the second day of the current two-day debate on the Palestine att##tion.In response to a question, he specifically stated that Britain could not undertake further obligations in Palestine even if the Security Council worked out a ## for the implementation of partition.

He appealed to the Jews not to attempt to bring in more visaless immigrants during the remaining months that the British will be in control of Palestine. Such ##on, he asserted, would be provocative and would only further intensify unrest. He ##d that Palestine even after partition did not hold the solution of the problem of displaced Jews in Europe. The only answer to that, he said, was for more countries to open their doors to refugee immigrants.

The Foreign Secretary insisted that if it were possible, the British Government would have terminated the Mandate before May 15 and withdrawn its troops and administration before August 1. “If negotiations with the United Nations move more ##idly than we now think, and an earlier date can be fixed, that will be done,” he ##dged.Britain has a “pretty big plateful of problems in foreign affairs and Palestine is only one of them,” Bevin declared. “We would like to have accepted a date ## February for terminating the Mandate, but that was physically impossible.” He painted out that Palestine was at present within the sterling bloc area and a hasty withdrawal might add economic disorder to all the other problems involved.

If Britain had attempted to leave before the dates which she has set, it would ## involved great losses of supplies and equipment, Bevin added. After the effort ## expenditures which British industry and science have put into Palestine during ## last 30 years, he asserted, Britain should not be expected to take a bigger loss ##an necessary.

He emphasized that priority would be given to removal of war supplies because dangerous toys” must not be left behind. He disclosed that extra shipping was being designed to the evacuation task at a high cost in foreign exchange.

Questioned whether a port would be freed soon, as envisaged by the U.N., he ##plied that a port would be released only after the Mandate was laid down because it is impossible to have two administrations in Palestine at one time.

Finally, he reiterated his now familiar charge that he was nearing an agreement with the Jews and the Arabs when the initiative was taken away from Britain.