The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-14
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Behind The Na~,.
british Losing
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AP Foreign Affairs a1lf

government sources in
don tell us that British on W.
opinion has veered around I, a..
view that Britain's nsns' a'
over Palestine must end-ss
tltude which may be exps,. y
to have a marked influen sss
consideration of the probIss, ''
the Holy land when it Coma.
fore the United Nations 49,.
bly, which resumes delibeT assem-
next Tuesday. auoas
This generation-old iss,.
one OF the most c%ontrovss,l,'
and at the same time coa
Gated questions with which tJ,Dp \
assembly will have to s,rr. IN
One of the first things ~
considered will be the eyn W. ''
report recently rendered b by ~
special U.N. COMMITTEE M
majority recommends @s
Palestine be partitioned a''
Jewish and Arab states, wiz la
economic union. The HOLY y| ci4 !.
Of Jerusalem and Betb,s Sas'
would be autonomous,
Britain submitted the D..
estine question to the U.N. -: ID,
this in itself was an indic.s4
that she felt the present rn.a
date couldn't 60 or ~ thai t' ss'
would have to quit ultins.s S'
The London government ~,
has been getting colossal Nv.
from all sides, and has CONN., ' y
regard the stewardship A.,
thankless task.
Incidents of recent ws.,,
have made Britain particuls-'
sorry for herself. At the end ! |!
July the British military in D..
estine executed three menber,
of Irgun Zvai Leumi, the lpsI
underground army, and Irgn i
retaliation hanged two PrtS
soldiers. Widespread anti. Semi
tic incidents followed in En-,
land.
UNHAPPY INCIDENT
| Within the past few days v,
have witnessed the unhsn
"exodus 1917" incident, ipvar,
ing the British action in sb,
ping back to Hamburg some /,
400 Jewish refugees who had
tried to reach Palestine on n,
Exodus. Many of the passenger
were disembarked by tnu
when they resisted the Brida
military, and Britain was Wild
ly criticised for an action whia
the United States had tried h
dissuade her from taking.
simultaneously the Paris ~
lice uncovered the alleged pa
to bomb London, at least wifi
propaganda, from an airplsn.
This was attributed to sympa
thiZers with the underground
Stern gang, and elven peopa,
including an American rabbi,
were arrested.
So trouble has multiplied
through the years until there il,
no security for the British in an
area which has so much hostl,|
ity toward them. And Palestine
isn't the only tough spot, fol-
neighboring Egypt daily is dem
onstrating against Britain fol
continuing to maintain troops ID
the land of the Pharaohs.
However, despite the fact thai
Britain is fed up with her MAJ;
date, we must expect her "
play a cautious game until s'E
sees what may grow out Of III
proposal for the division Of Pa
estine between Jews and Ara''
It should be noted that Palesth'
is a highly valuable mlltal
base for protection of England
interests in the middle east es
pecially the rich Iraq oil tell
True, the British are in pro-
ess of shifting their main oa8
further south to East Africa,
before they abandon PaleS@
they want to know whether a'1
other p-ower-meaning Russo
is going to move in. They Va
to know if the United Na'Na
can safeguard the terrl'a!l
Therefore 1 think we shall NV
that the British military mn.
which moves cautiously, Will "
some high level calculating y
fore agreeing to throw up i"
mandate entirely.