The Palestine Conference, which is scheduled to resume on Dec. 16, is likely to be postponed until January, Reuters reported today.
The report states that Prof. Selig Brodetsky, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, suggested a postponement to Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech-Jones last Tuesday. It adds that many Jewish leaders are anxious that the conference not be resumed until after conclusion of the World Zionist Congress, which will probably and in the last week of December.
Reuters also points out that another reason for postponement is the fact that many of the British and Arab delegates are in New York attending the United Nations Assembly, and it is unlikely that they can be back in England by Dec. 16.
The English-language Jewish Standard will carry a story tomorrow stating that it has learned from “the most reliable authority” that the Government has offered the Jewish Agency a scheme for the creation of a Jewish state which would take in the 1,500 mile coastal plain offered in the Morrison plan and part of the Negev. The Standard says that the Agency, after consultation with members in Britain and Palestine, informed the Government that the proposal was acceptable.
However, Moshe Shapiro, a member of the Agency executive, who arrived here today from Palestine, denied that any partition offer had been received from the Government, and said that the Government’s refusal to make concessions on immigration and transfer the Cyprus deportees to Palestine, is bound to affect adversely the Zionist Congress’ decision on Jewish participation in the London conference whenever it resumes.
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