Evening star., 1947-11-12
britain Is Expected
Reject Palestine
Split Responsibility
BY fhe Assoeioted Press

s4s% BY the Associoted Press
4 esLAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 12.-
sBritain was expected today to
xrefuse to assume major response
rbnity for enforcing the proposed
4%l1artition of Palestine into Jew
g1$h and Arab countries.
s. s@ Such a step would force immedi-
ate REVISION of the widely heralded
agreement between the United
Estates and Russia on implementing
the partition plan, which is still
: under consideration in United
Nations subcommittee.
s Minister of State Hector Mcneil
, .said his governments policy state
rnent probably would be ready for
delivery today and that it would be
reasonable and consistent" Re-
plying to a request for clarifcation,
he repeated the word consistent"
:.esx. Comment Stirs Speculation.
= ~ : Mr.. McNeils comment, coming on
the heels of a British speech OF
caution to the subcommittee yester-
day, led to speculation that London
was maintaining the position laid
down September 26, when Colonial
Secretary Arthur Creech-Jones told
the Assembly's Palestine Commit
tee:
If the Assembly should recon-
mend a policy which is not acCep-
table to the Jews and Arabs, the
United Kingdom government would
not feel able to implement it,"
The Jews support partition, but
the Arabs oppose it vigorously anc
have threatened to use force should
the U. N. attempt to enforce such g
plan.
> The enforcement formula, ap-
proved by the United States anc
Russia and now in partition
subcommittee provides that Britain
as the mandatory power, will con
tinue to be responsible for the main
tenance of law and order and the
conduct of essential public service:
in Palestine" between the time the
u N. approves partition and the
suggested termination of the man.
date next May /.
The formula also provides that s
three to five member commission
appointed by the Assembly "shal
assist the mandatory" 1t was un'
derstood that armed militia woulc
be raised in the two new nations a.
soon as possible, but no other provi.
sion was made for forces to helr
some 10000 British troops who will
be involved in a gradual process o1
withdrawal.
Pearson Indicates Tasks.
In his speech yesterday Sir Alex
.ander Cadogan told the subcom-
.mittee:
Il hope that in the elaboration OF
the implementation no proposals will
be reached to require the United
Kingdom government to adopt a
policy inconsistent with that previ-
ously made before the Palestine
Committee by the Colonial Secre-
tary."
Lester B. Pearson of Canada gave
some indications of the task the
U. N. would face in the event oi
British refusal with the comment
that the subcommittee has had tt
work more or less in the dark since
so much depends on acceptance BY
the British
The American-RuSSian plan pro-
vides that complete independence
would come to the two new nations
next July l, but the issue of imple-
mentation involving the British was
regarded here as the core of the
whole issue.
Spanish Report Awaited.
In the 57-nation Political Com
mittee, delegates awaited a report
from a drafting subcommittee at
tempting to work out differences
between three resolutions in the
Spanish case. Poland demands that
the U. N. take action against the
Franco regime, going SO far as to
invoke economic sanctions in efforts
to, unseat the wartime friend OF
Hitler and Mussolini.
LIE QUIET VERSIONS are nllQeI
and generally reiterate the Assem-
,blvs 1916 resolution which con-
tanned a moral condemnation OF
GeneralissimO Franco and called on
all members to withdraw Ministers
and : Ambassadors from Madrid
Only Argentina did not comply with
the recommendation.
The United States yesterday de.
clared against any action which
would initiate chance by violence
and expressed confidence that thu
Spanish people in due time and il
their own way" would take steps tx
regain their place in the family Of
nations.
Implementation of Secretary O.
State Marshall's accepted propose
for a U. N. watchdog commission il
the Balkans gets started today with
26 U. N. staff members leaving fol
Salonika, Greece. The group il
headed by Assistant Secretary-Gen
eral Ivan Kerno of Czechoslovakia
Nine of the II delegations to th
commission also are expected to ar
rive in Greece about November 81
Russia and Poland, the other tw'
elected, have declared a boycott o
the group.