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Secret Papers Reveal Churchill Pushed for Rapid Palestine Solution

LONDON (JTA — Secret
cabinet papers just released
here revealed that Prime
Minister Winston Churchill
pressed for a rapid solution
of the Palestine problem
through partition before the
end of World War II and
clashed sharply over the plan
with his then Foreign Secre-
tary, Anthony Eden.
The plan was disclosed in
papers relating to the final
period of the British Mandate
in Palestine (1943-45). Papers
of this type are now permit-
ted to be released after a
period of 30 years.
They showed that Churchill
and Leo Amery, then secre-
tary of state for India, strong-
ly pushed for the partition
plan against the advice of
Eden and other foreign office
officials and serious reserva-
tions by the military chiefs
of staff.
A partition report was
nevertheless approved by the
war cabinet on Jan. 25. 1944
but the need for continued
secrecy and deferred action
was accepted. In June 1944,
Eden asked for reconsidera-
tion of the plan.
According to the cabinet
papers, Churchill declared at
one point, "It is well known

I am determined not to break
the pledges of the British
government to the Zionists,
expressed in the Balfour Dec-
laration (1917), as modified
by my subsequent statement
at the Colonial Office in
1921."
In face of Eden's opposi-
tion, a second report was
completed by the cabinet's
Palestine committee in Octo-
ber 1944 which proposed the
establishment of three sep-
arate states in Palestine to
meet the chiefs of staff
strategic and defense require-
ments.
This plan, the cabinet
papers revealed, called for a
Jerusalem state with British
responsibility for its foreign
relations and defense; a Jew-
ish coastal state: and a state
of South Syria, comprising
the Arab areas of Palestine
and Trans-Jordan.
Sir Edward Grigg, the new
minister resident in the Mid-
dle East, raised objections,

backed by the foreign office.
In a report in April 1945,
Grigg said, "Partition .offers
no real solution and suffers
from serious defects." He
shared Eden's preference for
a single state under trustee-
ship.
In face of an apparent
deadlock, Churchill referred
the issue to Field Marshal
Jan Smuts, the South African
prime minister.

Smuts declared on April 13,
1945: "There is a consensus
of opinion of men on the spot
that partition is not a practi-
cal policy. I believe that par-

tition is strategically dan-
gerous, economically and
geographically most difficult
and that the racial and politi-
cal tangles will remain, per-
haps become worse." .He
recommended that the Pales-
tine Mandate should be main-
tained under British control.
At that point, Churchill de-

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called for a United Nations
trusteeship of Palestine and
controlled Jewish immigra-
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anti-Zionist Foreign Secre-
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