Britain and the United States have agreed on a procedure for submitting the Palestine question to the United Nations and final discussions are being held in Washington, an official source said today. He declared that disclosure of the agreement would be made in Washington or New York shortly.
(The State Department said today that it knew nothing of the purported agreement. It also denied a report appearing in a New York newspaper that the U.S. Government is considering the possibility of representing the Zionists when the Palestine issue comes before the U.N.)
(A spokesman for the British delegation to the U.N., however, confirmed that an agreement was near, declaring that both the U.S. Government and U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie were coming around to the British proposal for a brief session of the U.N. on Palestine, preliminary to the next scheduled meeting in September. He said that formal British presentation of the question to the U.N. awaited only final word from Washington, which was expected within the next few days.)
An indication that leaders of the Labor Party will encounter stiff opposition to the government’s policy in Palestine, when the annual party conference opens in Margate on May 26, was seen here today with the announcement that Labor branches in Manchester and Leads have tabled resolutions calling for abrogation of the White Paper. Three other branches are demanding surrender of the Palestine mandate to the U.N.
ZIONISTS WILL SEEK CLARIFICATION OF ISSUE AT U.N.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, one of the seven-man delegation designated by the Jewish Agency to present the Zionist case at the U.N., arrived here today on route to the United States. He said that the main task of the Agency executive in the next few weeks will be to seek clarification of the situation at the U.N. and explore the Zionists’ prospects. He stated that it was impossible to outline the Agency’s plans now, because it is still not known what recommendations will be made by member states of the U.N.
In a written reply to Sir George Jeffreys, Conservative, who had urged the reimposition of martial law and collective fines in districts in Palestine where oubreaks occur, Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech-Jones said that it had never been expected that military action by itself would put an end to terrorism, although many terrorists had been apprehended. Future actions will be determined by events, he added.
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