It was learned reliably today that the Woodhead Commission’s report on the proposed three-way partition of Palestine to settle the Arab-Jewish conflict is already in the hands of the British government and will be published on Tuesday or Wednesday.
United States Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy today called on Colonial Secretary Malcolm, MacDonald and discussed with him the Palestine situation.
In view of the “improvement in the general situation,” Palestine High Commissioner Sir Harold Alfred MacMichael has notified the Colonial Office that he is discontinuing the periodic reports on current developments.
A Colonial Office communique stresses that only British police and troops were used in the occupation of the old City of Jerusalem. It asserts that Jewish police will be used for “static defense”. Only and will be confined to purely Jewish areas.
Lord Lloyd’s proposal in the Sunday Chronicle that a permanent Arab majority be guaranteed in Palestine was scored by John McGovern, Independent Laborite M.P., at a Whitechapel mass meeting last night as “an attempt to prepare the British Government and public opinion for a sell-out of Palestine to placate Arabs at the expense of the Jewish people.”
Warning against abandoning the Palestine people to the fate of German and Austrian Jewry Mr. McGovern expressed his sympathy and solidarity with the Jewish people throughout the world who were “undergoing a martyrdom they had not before experienced.” He described the “unbelievable Jewish plight” he had witnessed on visits to Berlin and Vienna.
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