867N.01/1258: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Kennedy) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 7—12:25 p.m.]
1292. I have just left Malcolm MacDonald. He told me that the Woodhead report, a summary and the statement to be made by His Majesty’s Government in Parliament on Wednesday have been forwarded to Lindsay4 and are to be presented to you this afternoon.
Roughly the whole plan presupposes a conference of all interested parties. I asked him if the conferees’ names had been sent to Lindsay and he said they had not but they had planned to give them to me. I suggested that they cable them to Lindsay so that he could present to you the whole thing intact. They are doing so now so that if they do not arrive there before Lindsay gets to the Department you will know the names are on the way.
He is having Dr. Weizmann, President of Zionist Federation, for a conference tomorrow morning on the plan and hopes that Weizmann will give out a favorable statement. I think MacDonald will tell him they had intended a plan restricted as to immigration but that they were influenced months ago by pressure from the United States and changed their ideas.
- Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador in the United States.↩