Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin, both in Paris attending the conference of foreign ministers, will discuss the recommendations contained in the Anglo-American report on Palestine, it was learned here today.
The British Government will publish no statement of policy on the recommendations until it considers the report “at a later stage,” it was indicated here tonight. It is understood that the British press has been advised to refrain from criticism until the reaction in the United States and elsewhere is ascertained.
Reuter reports that well-informed quarters here today took the view that “the Anglo-American report on Palestine leaves Britain with full responsibility for maintaining law and order amid a situation whose explosive possibilities may actually be aggravated by terms of the report.” While there was no indication available tonight what line the Government planned to take in view of the committee’s unanimous recommendations, there was some uneasiness in London about the immediate future, the Reuter report said.
According to Reuter, considerable importance is attached in London to the recommendation that countries bordering on Palestine should be consulted when development schemes are planned for Palestine. “These expressions of view were welcomed here,” the report states. It pointed out that the Anglo-American committee made recommendations only, and that further consultations between the United States and Britain must take place before any of the recommendations are implemented.
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