Truman thought, as did Chaim Weizmann, that the plan was a precursor to a Jewish state in Palestine. When the Zionist Congress met in Basel in December 1946, its delegates disagreed, voting 171 to 154 to boycott the next round of negotiations in London, which was a clear rejection of the Morrison-Grady plan and Bevin’s latest revision of it, the allowance of one hundred thousand Jewish immigrants to Palestine over two years.
