Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-12
Bevin Rejects, Palestine Entry
For 100, 900 Jews, Threatens
To Sign Separate Peace Pocts
Refuses to Apply
Economic Sanctions
In Spanish Issue
BY the Assoeioted Press

BOURNEMOUTH, England,
June 12.-Foreign Secretary Ern-
est Bevin declared in an address
today that he would reject the
immediate immigration of 100,-
900 Jews to Palestine, and would
sign separate peace treaties with
defeated European nations if
pending peace negotiations con-
tinued begged down among the
four principal powers.
He declared, moreover. that he
would refuse to apply economic
sanctions to Spain.
Mr.. Bevin's stand was taken in
an appearance before the dominant
Labor party's annual conference
He won an overwhelming confer
ence Endorsement of his policies.
In fighting mood and speaking
eXtemporaneously, the rotund for
eign secretary won adoption of
party conference resolution indoors
ing his administration of foreign
affairs. Five other resolutions, all
critical, were withdrawn or defeated
Question of Splitting Europe.
Tho af h. ~f
eign Ministers in Paris next week.
he said will be whether Europe is to
be split into eastern and western
blocs.
II am not going to be a party to
any design in strategy against
Russia" Mr.. Bevin went on.
Neither will we give one moments
consideration to expansion. But
this division of Europe, this awful
business of drawing a line from
Stettin Germany to Albania and
behind that this solidified position
if that happens, which God forbid.
you will have two camps in Europe
and that will be the road to an
other struggle"
He called for conclusion of a
peace treaty with Austria and urged
the clearance of occupation troops
from the Danube basin.
Declaring he had been asked
whether he would sign a separate
peace treaty, Mr.. Bevin said:
Il don't know what steps we may
take to get these treaties, but no one
nation is going to keep me in a state
of war forever with other countries.
Won't Send More Troops.
On Palestine he said:
IF we put 100000 Jews in Pales-
tine tomorrow, I would have to put
another division of British troops
there. I am not prepared to do it.
THE Jews asked, as I understand
it, that in Palestine they should
have not merely a home but a
Palestinian state SO that their voices
could be heard in the chancellories
of the world.
That is what I will strive to do,
but it is going to take patience and
work in order to accomplish it." Mr..
Bevin declared.
Il must say to the Jews and
Arabs: Please put your guns away.
Don't blow up the British Tommy
who is quite innocent in this bust
ness. You are creating another
phase of the anti-Semitic feeling in
the British Army.
Il believe that if both sides did
disarm, peace and development
would be much easier"
Colonial Office Problem.
Mr.. Bevin said Palestine lis a ter
rife problem, really it is a Colonial
Office problem, but 1 recognize that
you cannot any longer leave it as a
colonial problem. 1t is interna-
tional"
The agitation in the United
States and particularly in New York
for 1000 Jews to be put into Pales-
tlne-and I do not want the Amer
leans to misunderstood me-is be-
cause they do not want too many
of them in New York" Mr.. Bevin
continued.
The Foreign Secretary said he was
extremely grateful to the United
States for taking part in the Pales-
tine Commission"
The convention of the Labor
party, now in control of the British
government, had before it a resolu-
ton calling for repeal of the 1899
white paper limiting Jewish immi-
grafton to Palestine.
Minister of State Philip Noel
Baker spoke before Mr.. Bevin and
said British foreign policy is dedi-
Gated to the belief that we can
make a world without war" and
that it must be done "in the next
10 years"
(See BEVIN, Page A-6.)