London, May 11. Mr Malcom MacDonald, the Colonial Secretary, will make a staie-"nent in the House of Commons early next week, regarding the Government's policy in Palestine. A White Paper, containing the Government's proposals, will later be issued. There are indications that the Labour Opposition will take a hostile view of the proposals, They are expected to ask for a debate on the subject at a very early date after the issue of the White Paper. leuter.
Anglo-Russian relations are the chief preoccupation of the newspapers here today. Premature jubilation, based on the belief that the Anglo-Soviet talks have reached a dead-lock, is countered by a sober article in the Hamburger Fremdentblatt, which says that the negotiations will unquestionably continue and that it is too early to forecast the probable outcome.
The significance of the Russian announcement, continues the article, consists of the fact that it reveals the "full extent of the dangerous aspect of the encirclement manceuvres of the British Government."
It must_be realized, it concludes, tnat the Soviet, in its official statement, in no way refused to give Rumania and Poland guarantees, and did not oppose, as such, the British demand that Russia should engage to supply military aid to Great Britain and France in case of an Eastern European conflict.—Reuter.
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