Weizmann Reported Coming to London for Conferences on Anglo-american Committee Report

Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency, is coming to London to participate in discussions which the United States and Britain are planning to hold with Jews and Arabs before taking action on the recommendations of the Anglo-American inquiry committee, the Sunday Times says today.

The Sunday Observer reports that considerable progress has been made in the talks between Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes on implementation of the committee’s report. The newspaper asserts that aside from negotiations with the American Government, Britain has kept its own counsel, consulting with neither the Jews nor the Arabs. It points out that the question may come up before the next Labor Party meeting when requests for speedy action are expected from many Labor MP’s.

A national conference of the British section of the World Jewish Congress meeting here today adopted resolutions welcoming the inquiry committee’s recommendation for the immediate admission of 100,000 European Jews to Palestine, while “regretting” that the committee had not accepted the view of the overwhelming majority of the Jews concerning the “fundamental need” for a Jewish state with equal rights for Arabs. A Communist-sponsored amendment calling for an independent democratic Arab-Jewish state was defeated.

Opening the conference, which was attended by 250 delegates, Samuel Silverman, Labor M.P., declared that the only justification for waiting for the Anglo-American report was the belief that its recommendations would be implemented without delay. He stressed that the terrorism in Palestine, which Prime Minister Attlee hoped to end by his conditions on implementation of the report, had resulted in 53 casualties as compared to the 6,000,000 Jews murdered in Europe by the Nazis.