London, Feb. 27. HE Colonial Secretary, Mr, Malcolm MacDonald, in reply to Mr. C.'R. Attlee, the Opposition Leader, in the House of Commons today, said'that the British delegation in the Palestine Conferences had laid before the Arab and Jewish delegations separately a series of suggestions for the solution of the Palestine problem These were still the subject of discussion in both conferences and at present he was not in a position to make any public announcement regarding them.
"Unfortunately incomplete and in some important respects misleading press reports purporting to give the substance of these suggestions have been published, and have gone to Palestine where they. have been the cause of serious incidents," Mr. MacDonald said. "I would appeal to the House and to the wider public, here and in Palestine, to withhold judgment on the lines of the solution now being considered by the conferences until an authoritative statement regarding them can be made. This will be done at the appropriate time when the negotiations which are proceeding, both with the-Arab and Jewish delegations, have advanced further."
In further replies to Mr. Attlee, the Colonial Secretary said that the incidents taking place in Palestine, where a series of bomb, landline and shooting outrages. took place to-day, had obviously made him consider whether some statement was not required.
He, therefore hoped that the statement he had just made would have a good effect, and he would have in mind the possibility of a further statement as the situation developed. He was extremely anxious, however, to say nothing which might embarrass the various delegations.in London. told the British Government that a drastic restriction of Jewish immigration, and an alteration of the British Mandate, "would have a disastrous effect upon public opinion in America."—Reuter.
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