Truman’s Proposal Provides for Admission of 50,000 Displaced Jews to United States

President Truman’s submission of his counterproposal on Palestine to the British Government was reported here today. It includes a suggestion for the establishment of a special United States immigration quota for displaced Jews, under which 50,000 Jewish refugees would be admitted to this country during one year through special legislative shifting of unused quotas to countries which exceeded their quotas.

The President’s counter-plan was not submitted as the final word, but as a basis for further negotiation. It incorporates certain features of a scheme suggested by the Jewish Agency and insists on the resumption of Jewish immigration to Palestine before embarking on long-term plans.

The suggestion to admit 50,000 displaced Jews during one year to the United States was recommended to the President by Henry F. Grady and his associate Cabinet Committee alternates. This number would be independent of the yearly 39,000 immigrants now permitted to enter the United States under existing laws.

CABINET MEMBER REVEALS WASHINGTON STUDIED JEWISH AGENCY’S PARTITION PLAN

Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder said at his press conference today that members of the President’s Cabinet Committee on Palestine have seen a plan for partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arabs states submitted by the Jewish Agency. He refused to discuss the reaction of the Cabinet Committee to the plan.

A White House spokesman said earlier that the President would not issue any statement on Palestine and is not likely to have anything to say this week. He de- clined to answer any questions as to whether the President was in communication with Prime Minister Attlee on the plan proposed by the Jewish Agency which allegedly suggests the following:

1. Palestine should not be “federalized” but should be divided into autonomous Jewish and Arab states, with full local control over immigration into the respective territories.

2. The Jewish state should include the entire Galilee area, the Central Jordan Valley and some of the mountainous areas in that section, as well as the Negev, which Britain had reserved for itself under the “federalization” plan.

3. Tacit recognition that Britain should be granted rights to establish whatever naval or land bases in the Jewish state it might need, and joint or international control should be established in Jerusalem and other Holy Places.

4. A definite date should be fixed for the surrender by Britain of the Palestine Mandate, with a considerable period of time allotted for transition from the mandate to autonomous Jewish and Arab states.

Under the reported Jewish Agency plan, all of Samaria would be turned over to the Arabs, with the port of Jaffa. Provision would be made for a corridor to Jaffa from land-bound Arab territory, under joint or international control.