Bevin Plan

The Bevin Plan, also described as the Bevin–Beeley Plan[1] was Britain's final attempt in the mid-20th century to solve the troubled situation that had developed between Arabs and Jewish people in Mandatory Palestine.

[3] Bevin and Beeley were subsequently cast in a negative light in Israeli legend "as a malevolent midwife at the birth of the state".

[4] Following the rejection, the British Government referred the issue of Palestine to the United Nations, leading to the creation of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine.

[3] A number of elements of the Bevin plan were similar to the March 1948 American trusteeship proposal for Palestine, proposed four months after the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.

[3] The admission of "100,000 displaced persons", proposed in the Harrison Report, would be allowed at a rate of 4,000 immigrants per month over two years.

Proposals for the Future of Palestine – July 1946 – February 1947, Cmd 7044; the Bevin Plan was the third of the three proposals.