SOLUTION FOR PALESTINE

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22662, 17 March 1939, Page 18

SOLUTION FOR PALESTINE

BRITISH PROPOSAL ANNOUNCED TRANSITIONAL PERIOD OF GOVERNMENT (totted put as ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.)

(Received March 16, 10 p.m.)

LONDON, March 16,

The Government submitted its final proposals for the solution of the Palestine problems to the Arab and Jewish delegations separately. The meetings were adjourned.

It is understood that the plan provides for a transitional period dependent on peaceful collaboration between Arabs and Jews, during Wljich an Executive Council composed of British executive officers, some nominated by Arabs and Jews will act as Ministers without portfolios, while a nominated advisory council on which Arabs and Jews will be represented in proportion to population will carry on the government under the British High Commissioner.

Future development will be decided in Palestine when the populations are reconciled.

Jewish immigration is limited to 15,000 a year for five years, after which the question will be reconsidered.

POLICE FORCE PERSONNEL

STATEMENT IN HOUSE OP COMMONS (Received March 16, 9 p.m.)

LONDON, March 16

Answering a question in the House of Commons on recruitment for the Palestine police service, which he said was proceeding normally; the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr Malcolm MacDonald, emphatically repudiated a suggestion which had been circulated in some quarters that when prisoners convicted of violence were released from prisons in the United Kingdom, efforts were made to recruit them for service in Palestine,.