Foreign Minister Bevin, in the presence of most of the British Cabinet, promised the members of the Anglo-American inquiry committee that the British Government would follow the group’s recommendations on Palestine, if it was able to reach a unanimous decision, it was stated here by Bartley Crum, San Francisco attorney, who was one of the six U.S. members.
Mr. Crum said that he believed, on the basis of a discussion he had last week with President Truman, that instructions for implementing the committee’s recommendation that 100,000 Jews be moved to Palestine as soon as possible would be issued shortly. He stated that the entire 100,000 could be transported in two months.
Asserting that Arab and Jewish workers get along well when not bothered by “fanatical religious leaders,” Crum suggested that the United States demand the arrest of the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem as a war criminal, since he “is one of the about 25 Moslem troublemakers who constitute the so-called ‘Arab World.'”
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