The Palestine question as such will not be considered at the meeting of the “Big Five” which the State Department has suggested should take place two weeks before the opening of the San Francisco Conference for the purpose of working out an agreement on mandates, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency loarned here today.
The location of the meeting of the “Big Five” – the United States, Britain, Russia, France and China – is under discussion at present. The meeting would concern itself with the recommendation of the United States suggesting the establishment of an international trusteeship over mandated territories. Britain and France may oppose this recommendation, it was indicated.
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