3 j A 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- DETECTIVE AGENCY • Individual • Commercial & Bonded 474-8084 called for a United Nations trusteeship of Palestine and controlled Jewish immigra- tion, a plan attributed to his anti-Zionist Foreign Secre- tary Ernest Bevin. 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