Well-informed British quarters today authoritatively denied reports that Britain is inclined to accept the Palestine partition scheme as a result of the talks Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin has had with President Truman and with the Secretary of State James F. Byrnes.
The same sources also declared that “there is no truth whatsoever” to reports that Britain and the United States have reached an agreement in general on the Palestine problem and will propose an as yet undisclosed common solution when the conference on Palestine is resumed next month in London. They revealed that the conference is not expected to meet before the third week of January.
A common Anglo-American approach, they pointed out, could only be reached if Britain supported the partition scheme. They cite the fact that in the recent exchange of correspondence on the Palestine question between Bevin and Byrnes, the Foreign Secretary gave a categorical assurance that Britain will not come to the London parley committed in advance to any solution, not even to the “federalization plan” originally proposed by the British.
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