President Roosevelt was quoted today by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, as expressing the belief that when the war is over a “specific solution” to the Palestine problem will be found.
Leaving the White House after a conference with the President, Dr. Weizmann paused to tell reporters that “the President apparently knows a great deal about Palestine and is deeply interested.”
The Zionist leader was accompanied to the White House by Lord Lothian, the British Ambassador, who introduced him to President Roosevelt but said he himself did not participate in the conference in the Chief Executive’s office.
Before catching a plane for Florida, Dr. Weizmann, discussing his visit to Washington, said he had come to the capital “to see a number of persons and to continue to present our cause to them.”
The State Department revealed later that Dr. Weizmann also held a conference with Wallace Murray, chief of the Division of Near Eastern Affairs, and called upon Secretary of State Cordell Hull to pay his respects.
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