Leaders of the Jewish Agency, including Dr. Nahum Goldmann and Berl Locker, today conferred with Foreign Secretary Bevin and Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech-Jones on current Palestine problems.
A spokesman for the Foreign Office stated that no official reply is expected to be issued by the British Government to the statement last night by the White House, terming Bevin’s attack on Truman as “unfortunate and misleading.” The White House statement was made to the press and was not addressed to the British Government, he said.
The Foreign Office also said that nothing has been heard as yet from Sir Alexander Cadogan, British delegate to the United Nations Security Council, concerning his meeting in New York with Trygve Lie, U.N. Secretary-General, to discuss whether a special meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations can be summoned to deal with the Palestine problem.
A debate on the Palestine question which was scheduled to have taken place today in the House of Lords has been postponed until March 17th.
James G. MacDonald, former member of the Anglo-American Inquiry committee on Palestine, upon his arrival here today to open the $6,000,000 Joint Palestine Appeal, expressed the belief that Britain should remain in Palestine. It is not inconsistent that Britain should retain the strategic Palestine and, at the same time, agree to the Jewish claims in Palestine, he told a press conference. It makes no sense for Britain to get out of Palestine militarily, he stated.
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