Official circles today indicated that the British ##nment intends to surrender the Palestine Mandate on May 15, 1948. An announce? to this effect will be made by Sir Alexander Cadogan, head of the British delegation at the United Nations, to the U.N. implementation commission as soon as the commission is set up, a government spokesman said. He hinted that Sir Alexander will ?est that the independent Jewish and Arab states in Palestine come into existence ## 1st.
(At Lake Success, Sir Alexander told a Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspond? that “May 15th seems the logical date” for the laying down of the Mandate. He ?irmed the London report that he will submit the exact date of the surrender of ? Mandate to the U.N. Commission.
The first official announcement of the dates on which British troops will be ?drawn from Palestine is expected to be made by Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech?s in a statement at the beginning of the two-day Palestine debate in Parliament ? Thursday and Friday. Unofficially, it was learned today that British and Arab ?ce will be withdrawn from Tel Aviv, Petach Tikvah and Ramath Gan on Dec. 15, leav? this area under supervision of local Jewish police.
Well informed circles today revealed that the first talk on Palestine between ? Secretary of State Marshall and British Foreign Secretary Bevin, held a few days ?, ended “inconclusively.” Mr. Marshall and Mr. Bevin are expected again to dis? the future of Palestine before the Secretary of State returns to the United States.
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