Attlee Reported Planning to Discuss Palestine Question with
Truman in Washington  Prime Minister Attlee will probably visit
the United States before Christmas to discuss the Palestine
question and other matters of dicision interest to the United
States and Britain, it is reported today in the London press.
The report adds that the Prime Minister’s residence would
neither deny nor confirm that he is planning to visit President
Truman.  Recent suggestions that Jewish immigration be diverted
to Cyrenaica or Tripolitania to avoid conflict in Palestine are
rejected in a letter to the Times by William Kennedy Shaw,
former civil affairs officer of the British military
administration in Tripolitania, Shaw writes that settlement
there would also be “at the expense of the Arabs,” and stresses
that the country is semi-desert and can only obsorb a limited
number of immigrants.  Anwar Nashashibi, speaking for the Arab
office here, declares in the Manchester Guardian today that the
White Paper can be altered only by force.