The Palestine partition scheme is dead, it was asserted tonight by the diplomatic correspondent of the evening standard, who declared the Government was officially still standing by it but in reality had admitted its impracticability.
According to the correspondent, the British authorities on the spot and the members of the Palestine partition commission are agreed that it would be dangerous to create an independent Arab state embracing two-thirds of Palestine.
The partition plan, He writes, has been replaced by a proposal for a Jewish autonomous area covering the Sharon plain, extending from Tel Aviv to Athlit and comprising approximately 400 square miles with a population 95 per cent Jewish, with the whole of Palestine remaining under an amended mandate.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency was officially informed that while the Partition Commission had possibly considered such a plan among others, no decision of any kind has been taken, therefore the plan could not have been considered by the government.
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