Hope That Negotiations Will Be Kept Alive

Chronicle (Levin), 10 February 1947, Page 5

Hope That Negotiations Will Be Kept Alive

Press Assn.-

PROVISION OF NEW START

By Telegraph

-Covvriqht

Reeeived Sunday, 7.U p.m. LO NJDON, Jb'eb. 8. The Government 's new proposals for Palestine were approved at yesterday's Cabinet meeting and have been handed to the Amu delegations attending the London coni'erence and to the Jewish Ageney. The Times diplomatie eorrespondent says Mr. Bevin dislikes partition as a solution but his prineipal and most immediate objeet is to prevent a eomplete breakdown in the present diseussions. The Government 's proposals may therel'ore represent some form o£ compromise in which they hope that both Arabs and Jews ean timi enongh common ground to keep the existing negotiations alive. But that hope may be slender unless, as Mr. Bevin suggested at the last sitting of the coni'erenee. there is Avillingness to put 1'orward eounterproposals instead oL' fiatly rejecting partially unaeeeptable proposals. Jt remains the Government's intention not to mipose its new proposals by force. The best that is hoped Toi', the e.orrespondent says, is that the proposals will enable somelhing like a new start to be made but a less hope Tui view is that they provide a last ehance.