Show ireat I ea Britain retain Abandons Plan an anFor For Partitioning Holy o Land an r LONDON Nov 9 AP The AP-The The British government announced today to- to today toda da day abandonment of oits its proposal to partition Palestine Instead a conference of Jews and Arabs Arab will be summoned in ondon London and nd an attempt made to w work out rk out an amicable settlement If the th conference fails the government will take their own decision deci deep sion in the light of their examination of the problem and of the discussions discussions discussions dis dis- in London and announce the policy which they propose to pursue In a statement issued simultaneously with the report of the royal commission headed by Sir John Wo the government announced announced announced an an- its conclusion on political administrative and financial difficult difficulties difficulties 1 cult es in the proposal to create in independent independent in- in i dependent Arab and Jewish states 1 inside Palestine are so great that I this solution of the problem i is l im im- im- im practical 1 The statement said members of I Ithe the commission were unable to toI I recommend boundaries for the proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed areas which will afford reasonable reasonable reasonable rea rea- prospect of the eventual establishment of supporting self-supporting Arab and Jewish states The commissions commission's report came as British soldiers sought to restore peace in the Holy Land where an Arab rebellion against British rule and Jewish immigration tion to their homeland has re resulted resulted resulted re- re in 2458 casualties in the last fo four r months and 2047 in the previouS previous previous pre pre- two years I Restoration of pea peace e among the Arabs growing increasingly nationalistic nationalistic nationalistic na na- na- na appeared vital to Britain who received from the League of Nations a mandate in 1922 to govern govern govern gov gov- ern Palestine Palestine guards tl the e north flank of the Suez canal and andis andis andis is on the path along which German German German Ger Ger- man influence is spreading since sincee the partition of Czech Czechoslovakia sl The partition of Palestine was recommended July 8 1937 in a report report re re- re port by a royal commission headed by the late Earl Peel Besides Jewish Jewish Jewish Jew Jew- ish and Arab states a a. c continued British mandate over Jerusalem Bethlehem and a narrow corridor to the sea was advised Bloodshed m marked rk d reception of the report Arabs were satisfied with the solution but the Jews agre agreed d to use use it asa as asa asa a basis for further negotiation As a result the commission commission commission com com- mission was appointed to draw up upa a workable scheme of partition Palestine Palestine Palestine Pal Pal- The commissions commission's hearings in estine were boycotted by Arabs The governments government's statement today said the Jewish agency world Jewish Jewish Jewish Jew Jew- ish organization empowered by the mandate to advise with the government government government govern govern- ment would represent the Jews inthe in inthe inthe the conference expected shortly be before before before be- be fore Christmas or early in 1939 In addition to Palestinian Arabs there will be delegates from neighboring neighboring neighboring neigh neigh- boring Arab states The invitation of outside Arabs was understood to have been motivated motivated motivated moti moti- by th the hope they would exercise exer exer- cise a moderating influence on the bitter and unflinching unflinching- Palestine Arabs and because they might impede impede impede im im- im- im pede negotiations if not included The government reserved the right however howerter to refuse to re receive receive receive re- re those leaders in Palestine whom they regard as responsible for the campaign of ass assassination and violence This proviso was believed aimed at Haj Amin min El Husseini the grand mufti of Jerusalem who has demanded demanded demanded de de- Arab independence and a cessation of Jewish immigration as his price of peace He fled to neighboring Syria a year ago One of the problems of the con conference con con- ference will be to reach an agreement agreement agreement agree agree- ment on future Jewish tion The declaration of the wartime wartime wartime war war- time foreign minister Lord Balfour Balfour Balfour Bal- Bal four for a Jewish national nati nal home in Palestine was incorporated in the league e mandate |