Efforts were being made today to arrange interviews with Prime Minister Naville Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax, Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald and other Government leaders to hear a last minute plea by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, to delay publication of the British policy on Palestine.
It was reliably learned, however, that the final decisions will have been taken before Dr. Weizmann’s arrival from Jerusalem by plane tomorrow night. The Cabinet is expected tomorrow to accept a Cabinet committee’s recommendation to publish a White Paper setting forth the Government’s policy early next week. The policy is believed to follow the lines of the final government proposals at the recent London conference, providing for ultimate creation of an Arab-dominated independent Palestine state.
The London executive of the Jewish Agency held a three-hour session yesterday to consider the political situation. It is understood no definite decisions were taken because of the lack of official information regarding the Government’s plans.
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