Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin had an hour long conference with President Truman this morning at the White House, at which all subjects under consideration by the two countries were discussed.
After Mr. Bevin left the White House, a British spokesman said that he and the President had “found themselves in general agreement.” Asked whether the Middle East had entered into the conversation, the spokesman said that the Foreign Secretary and Mr. Truman had discussed everything. It is assumed that the Palestine question was included. Present at the conference were Dean Acheson, Under-Secretary of State, and British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel.
The office of the Jewish Agency here, meanwhile, refused to comment on the announcement by Secretary of State Byrnes that the United States would send an observer to the London Conference on Palestine when it resumes in January, if both Jews and Arabs participate in the talks.
In a letter to Bevin on Nov. 29, which was released yesterday, Brynes stated that Jewish leaders with whom he had conferred wanted assurances that the partition proposal favored by them would be placed on the agenda of the London parley before they would agree to attend. In a reply, dated Dec. 2, also made public yesterday, Bevin pledged that all proposals by the Jewish, Arab and British delegations would be given equal status at the conference, and that Britain was not committed in advance to its own proposals.
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