Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson and Sir John Singleton, British and American co-chairmen of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, are on route by air to their respective governments bearing a compromise, but unanimous, report, it was learned here today.
The committee completed its deliberations yesterday, well within the day period allotted it. Despite all the rumors which have circulated in recent weeks, and despite the frequently acrimonious debate which occurred while the recommendations were being drafted, no minority report was written.
From today on, the fate of Palestine rests in the hands of the two governments and the Anglo-American inquiry committee no longer exists, its members scattering to their homes in England or the United States. It is assumed that the State Department and the Foreign Office will contact each other for the purpose of arranging simultaneous release of the report in Washington and London.
It is not known yet if the report will be released immediately, or whether the two governments will first consult as to the decisions to be taken on the basis of the report, and release it only when they are ready to announce these decisions. It is understood that when the committee visited Foreign Minister Bevin during its hearings in London, he intimated that whatever they recommended would be acted upon.
In the 104 days that elapsed between Jan. 7, when it opened hearings in Washington, and yesterday, the committee, in part or in whole, visited London, Paris, Bari, Berlin, Stuttgart, Munich, Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Prague, Warsaw, Cairo, Jerusalem, Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad and Riyad, studying the problems of the Jews of Europe both in and out of displaced persons camps and in the Middle East, and the problems of Palestine.
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