Evening star., 1946-12-09
British husi CONTINUE
Efforts 10 Settle Three
Big Foreign Hazards
By George Waller
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LONDON Dec .. Britain Ii dog
gedly facing today three encircline
hasartis ID foreign policy which seem
likely to continue through tie win
fer India. Palestine and Greece.
The 6cviets new policy az con-
soltdating, instead of extending, pol
uticAl gains has given the British
some respite and their honorable
evacuation from Indpnesia counts
on the reassnring side 81 Jobs wen
finished But India, Palestine and
Greece are stil1 bitter and bloody
erslptions on the long arm Of the
+ empire. They never looked more
hopeless than today.
India's exculSioning leaders, the
Hindu, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru,
vice president of the Interim Gop-
ernmeft Council; the Mosler1, Mo-
l1annAed All Jinnai1, president Of
the Moslcn1 League, and the Sikh
representative. Sardar BaldeV Singh.
were TO leave London today for M
dia. Their effort to change their
deadlock BY changing climate, sub
stituting British Prinae Minister
Clement n. Attlee and hts cabinet
colleagues for the weary vicer0y,
Lord Waveli, as midd ddlemen to the
dispute, has ended III failure Mo-
body viii be surprised II blooishedH
Is resumed on racial basis In
India.
Zionists Are Warned.
In Palestine, Zionist agencies
have been warned that unless ter
rorisn1 ceases the British must
swing to ! stern counterofie fienSive.
High Commissioner Sir Alan Cum
ninghar1 has informed Ben Zyi,
acting director OF the American
financed Jewish Agency, that mill
tary measures far more severe than
any yet In force will be used to-
check British nloodshed at the
hands Of jews unless anarchy
The Haganah underground army,
which Is relatively moderate, is re-
ported on the point Of starting 4 |
kidnapping offensive against both
the Stern gang and the zvai Leumi
Irgun, whose educational meth-
odsp blew up the British Embassy |
IN Rome.
While the Jewish underground /
continues to ship refugees through
Northern Italy. the British have
Just finished another large refugee
camp in Cyprus, with room for
l0,500 internees. The British para
troop division ID Palestine. whose
discipline has been severely
strained, is being recalled The Dee
cember Palestine Conference. to
which President Truman agreed to
send an American observer, has
been postponed to January.
Greek Fighting Continues.
IN Greece, coalrts-Snartial handing f
out death sentences In patches Of
. dozen, have not wiped out In
surgence within the army. The
rank and file are far less cpnvincedI i
than government spokesmen that
moiintain guerriIlas are aided or
armed BY the Slas bloc, even though
this view is being systematically /
spread from London and Washing
ton as background for Greek Pre-
mier Constantin Tsaldaris' present |
demands for more unconditional
American help.
vfscount Montgomery, chief OFT
the imperial general stan, has
promised to give the Greek high
command mountain guns and to
train commandos for the repression
Of anti -Royaiist guerrillas. The
British occupation mission OF pre-
serving law and order In Greece" Is
as far from being achieved under
todays Socialist government as un-
der winston Churchill.
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