Evening star., 1949-01-16
Bevin Palestine Policy
=Stirs Criticism Amonq
5:AtI Parties in Britain

c. LONDON, Jan. 15.-Criticism of
sy the Assoeiotsd Press
Foreign Secretary Bevin's Palestine
policy mounted among Laborites,
Liberals and Conservatives today.
Questions listed for next Wednes-
days session of the House of Com
mons indicated the foreign secretary
will be in for hot time. Parliament
returns from month-long Christ
mas holiday Tuesday.
Raymond Blackburn, Labor
member of Parliament, said he will
demand public investigation into
the death of Pilot Officer David
Crossley Tattersfield, one of the
Ave RAF pilots shot down a week
ago Friday over the Israeli Egyp-
tian battle area.
Bitter Argument in Prospect.
i The question may open bitter
parliamentary argument over Brit
aims action in sending armed air
reconnaissance patrols along Israel's
frontier.
Two other members listed parlia-.
mentary questions for the debate on
Palestine. A. v. Harvey, a Con-
servative who formerly was an RAF
commodore, said he wanted to know
the exact instructions given the
fighter patrols before they were
sent into the battle zone.
w. T. Scott-Elliott, Labor men,
Der, said he intends to ask Mr..
Bevin if he knows how many air
craft have been supplied to Israeli
by CzechoSlovakia in defiance of the
U. N. embargo on arms shipments.
Sir Andrew MacFadyean, resident
elect of the Liberal Party, told a
Palestine protest meeting in Lon
don tonight "the evidence suggests
that at times Bevin has been ac-
tivated, if not by hatred, at any
rate by intense dislike of the Jews.
He said Britains relations with
the Arabs had distorted British Of
fetal judgment of the Middle East
situation.
War Flames Declared Famed.
Clement Davies, parliamentary
leader of the Liberal Party, told
the meeting I'VE were dealing with
situation so tense that anything
might happen-including war"
The Labor governments policy,
he said, was in line with a whole
series Of other actions, the effect of
which has been to foment trouble
and fan the flames of war"
Harold Macmillan, Conservative,
wartime British resident commits
sioner at Allied Mediterranean head
quarters, told another political meet
ing at Bromley the Middle East
muddle is really intolerable."
I'VE find ourselves, after 80 years
Of generous effort on their behalf,
bitterly hated by the Jews. We are
suspected by the Arabs, we have
failed to win the sympathy or the
cooperation. of the Americans and
we are being out-maneuvered by
the Russians" he said.
Churchill May Lead Attack.
Winston Churchill, the Conserva-
tive leader, just returned from a |
holiday in France, is likely to lead
a sharply critical attack on Mr..
Bevin. He previously has raped
the government for sending a Mos
quito plane over the Jewish capital,
an action that was revealed when
the plane was shot down a month
ago. /
Anthony Eden, No. 2 Conservative,
already has voiced criticism of Mr. .
Bevin's policy on Isreal.
Mr.. Bevin's position depends pri-
marily, however, on the extent of
the revolt within the Labor Party. /
Left-wing members of the party
have rebelled before over foreign .
policy and defense measures with
out shaking him. Laborites have
called a private caucus for next
Wednesday to put him on the carpet.