Fire different proposals as to the program of action to be adopted by the Jewish Agency were discussed today at two meetings of the executive.
Another meeting is scheduled to be held tonight and important decisions are to be arrived at in the course of the night or tomorrow morning. One of the questions that must be decided is whether to accept the British Government’s invitation to the Agency to send representatives to the round-table talks in London.
(A New York Times report yesterday stated that some members of the Agency executive were prepared to accept a modified form of the British “federalization” plan, but only on better terms and with the understanding that the British withdraw from Palestine within a year or two. The report emphasizes that it is premature to say that the entire executive has been won over to this compromise.
(The Times reports today that high U.S. officials have sent to Washington reports by at least two advisers attached to the American Cabinet Committee alternates which charge that Henry F. Grady, head of the delegation, ignored the advice of his staff and disregarded the directives given the alternates by the U.S. Government. Grady is reported to have given in to the British demand that admission of 100,000 Jews to Palestine depend on acceptance of the entire plan, despite the fact that his staff was opposed.)
It was reported that Dr. Chaim Weizmann who is soon to undergo an eye operation, which must be preceded by a short period of rest, may attend the meeting here for a day or two to present his views.
Rabbi Philip Bernstein, special advisor on Jewish Affairs to Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, American commander in Germany, yesterday addressed a private meeting of members of the Agency executive and other world Zionist leaders meeting here.
It is believed Dr. Bernstein, who just completed a tour of Germany, Austria and Poland, reported on the physical and mental state of the displaced Jews in the American zone and on the plight of the Jews in Poland and those fleeing from there.
The executive meeting yesterday wired a message of solidarity to Moshe Shertok, Dr. Itzchak Gruenbaum, and Dr. Bernard Joseph, members of the executive, and David Remez, general secretary of the Histadruth, all of whom have been imprisoned in the Latrun detention camp since June 29. The message said: “We are with you in these days of great trouble and hope that our people, in spite of all difficulties, will achieve its national liberation.”
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