A high British personality, whose name cannot be disclosed, today stated that no plan for Palestine was discussed at the conferences held by Roosevelt and Churchill with the Arab kings. He expressed the opinion that “the Palestine question will be settled after the war.”
A report stating that the U.S. Ambassador in Paris has presented to Gen. de Gaulle a memorandum indicating that the mandates over Palestine, Syria and Lebanon would be handed over to United Nations trusteeship is published in the London Daily Sketch.
(State Department sources in Washington told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that they had no knowledge that instructions had gone to Ambassador Calfery in Paris to inform General de Gaulle that the British mandate for Palestine and the French mandates for Lebanon and Syria were to be turned over to an international trusteeship of the United Nations.)
The London Daily Herald says that the report that Britain suggested the partitioning of Palestine “can be dismissed.” The paper adds that no important decisions and no formal agreements were made during the conversations in Egypt with leaders of the Arab countries.
The London Times, in an editorial commenting on the separate talks which Roosevelt and Churchill had with the Arab kings in Egypt, said that there is good reason to hope that the policies of the United Nations with regard to the Middle East are being formed in relation to the general world organization. The problems of Palestine and of the Levant states, the editorial continues, cannot be viewed as isolated questions but are being considered in relation to the general problems in the Middle East which are now becoming a matter of joint interest of the United Nations.
The Manchester Guardian says “whether Palestine remains a mandated territory or becomes an independent state, it will have considerable bearing on post-war security. It adds that no one can contest the fact that the Jewish National Home is a reality and is going to increase in strength.
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