The Foreign office and the American Embassy here are conducting discussions on the terms of reference under which the Palestine issue will be placed before the United Nations, a Foreign Office spokesman revealed today. He said that the talks have so far been inconclusive.
(Replying to a query by the JTA, the State Department today said that it had no information concerning a meeting of British and American representatives to discuss the procedure for submitting the Palestine question to the U.N.)
The British spokesman said that immigration was not within the scope of the present discussions. He denied that Washington has made any new requests on immigration and reiterated that there was no intention of increasing the monthly quota for Jews.
Colonial Minister Arthur Creech Jones reported to the House of Commons today that 25 ships carrying visaless Jewish immigrants had arrived in Palestine waters since November, 1945, while one refugee vessel had been wrecked. He told a questioner that because the ships documents were usually destroyed before their capture it was not always possible to check their right to fly the flag under which they sailed.
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