The State Department today announced that it has not yet received a formal reply from the British Government to the request by Secretary of State Marshall for clarification of the British intentions with regard to their decision to bring the Palestine issue before the United Nations.
The clarification for which Marshall asked is said to be related to purely procedural matters, such as before what board of the U.N. the question might be brought, when and in what form. Sir Alexander Cadogan, British representative to the United Nations, is understood to have discussed these matters yesterday with Tryers Lie, Secretary-General of the Unied Nations.
Mr. Lie, after a formal call today on Secretary Marshall, told reports that he knew nothing more about the possibility of a special session of the General Assembly being called to consider Palestine than what had been reported in the press. He said that a majority of the member nations of the United Nations can call a special session.
Former President Herbert Hoover said today that Jewish displaced persons must be gotten out of the American areas of occupation in Germany and Austria and must go somewhere. He declined, however, to commit himself on whether they should be admitted to Palestine, declaring that that was a hot issue and he does not want to stir up trouble.
Mr. Hoover called at the White House to discuss with President Truman the report of the ex-President’s recent mission to Europe to survay food conditions. He was asked about a report from Germany at the time of his visit there that General MacNarney, commander of U.S. forces, told Mr. Hoover that the majority of the Jewish DP’s wished to go to Palestine and should be allowed to do so. The ex-President confirmed this statement, but declined to make any further comment.
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver and Emanuel Neumann, president and vice-president of the Zionist Organization of America, and members of the Executive of the Jewish Agency discussed Palestine with a bi-partisan group of 15 senators at a dinner last night. Several of those present are members of the Foreign Relations Committee.
A general picture of the Palestine situation was given by Dr. Silver. Dr. Neumann presented a confidential report of the recent London negotiations, in which he participated. Before the dinner, Dr. Neumann conferred for two hours with officials of the Near Eastern Division of the State Department.
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