Moshe Shertok, head of the political department of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, denied any knowledge today of reported Arab-Zionist negotiations in Paris in which he was said to have been participating.
“I have absolutely no knowledge whatsoever of such negotiations,” he told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “The whole thing is new to me.”
According to published reports abroad, the negotiations had been going on in Paris between “a man of great influence in the Near East” as principle Arab representative, and Dr. Chaim Weizmann for the Zionists. Mr. Shertok reportedly later succeeded Dr. Weizmann in the negotiations.
One of the plans reported under discussion would provide for limitation of Jewish immigration to 40,000 annually for the next ten years, the opening of Transjordan for settlement by 20,000 Jews a year and the halting of immigration at the end of the ten-year period, a new policy to be set by a mixed Arab-Jewish assembly.
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