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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1949.
POCKET CARTOON
Mr Churchill's Commons Speech On Palestine Problem
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“ASTOUNDING MISHANDLING'
BY MR BEVIN
Policy Of Folly Stupidity And Fatuity
London, Jan. 26. Mr Winston Churchill attacked the Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, for his "astounding mishandling" of the Palestine problem.
Speaking after Mr Bevin in the debate on Pales- tine and the Middle East in the House of Commons today, Mr Churchill said that in the spirit of the general policy which Mr Bevin had pursued, the Opposition had supported him and they did not withdraw that support at the present time.
"It is on this basis and with this background that we are forced to consider his astounding mis- handling of the Palestine problem," Mr Churchill declared.
"We feel that this has been so gross and glaring that we should fail in our duty if we did not expose it in the plainest terms, and we shall not only do that in debate but we shall support our criticism in the lobby" (vote against the Government).
of "No one ever made such sweeping declarations confidence in himself on this point than Mr Bevin and
to be events no one has been proved by
more
con-
sistently wrong at every moment than he has,
"Every opportunity for obtaining
講 satisfactory
the
**This in due not only to the mental inertia and lack of grit D the part of the Ministers concerned, | but Also I wn afraid on a very sirong direct streak of blas and prejudice on the part of the Ford Secretory.
"The course ho took led dirčetly and Inevitably to a trial of strength and the result was the opposite, 1 bellove, to what he expected. I will not any more than that."
Mr Bevin Interjected. "Enough." FORMIDABLE SPECTACLE -
sald Mr Churchill
he certainly felt that the spectacle of Jewish settlements being invaded from all aldes, from Syrla, Transjordan and Egypt, with a lot of British taples and modern tackle, was on the face of it formidable.
He believed such a combination would
fall to
to pleces at the first at- tack and he adhered to the estimate he had formed in the war es to the Bghting qualities and tough bre of the Zionist community and the sup- port It would obtain from Zionists all over the world.
"Our influence is therefore at minimum as a result of our impro- vident diplomacy. I hope, later on a truer appreciation of the Zionist debt to this country will revive.
"But for the present we seem to have deprived ourselves of all the fruits of peace. Morcover, the Foreign Secretary and his polley has been the worse policy for the Arabs. I am sure we could have agreed Immediately after the war to a par- tition scheme which would have been more favourable to the Arabs." The Prime Minister (Mr Clement Attlee): "If you thought you could have done that why didn't you do after tho war. You were power,"
MISCALCULATIONS
in
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settlement was thrown away immediately after
Mr Churchill: "Because the nation and the world had the inestimable blessing of your guldance." added: "Wu are evidently in the presence of prolonged, repeated and serious miscalculations on the part of the Forcign
Secretary and his anil colleagues. advisers and Arabs must have
Both Jews access to the Red Sea through the Gulf of Akaba, he said. This had In most of the partition Secretary, Mr gured "The
schemes and it should be possible to been
Interrupted or two and sometimes Arthur Creech Jones, Onc
reconcile competing claims for march of to describe this as an untruth, The three steps behind the events in this matter. There never
that Commission reported
it was justice.
war.
The: Government have always
tus been, in my belief, the slightest appreciation of the Palestine prob- lens by the Foreign Secretary.
"I am quite sure he will have to recognises the Israeli Government and that cannot be long delayed.
"I do not feel any great confidence that the Foreign Secretary has not Kot prejudice against the Jews in Palestine. We have so managed our affairs as to fit ourselves ranged on the opposite side to the United States and Soviet Russia, to the Palestine
selffers and their Zionist supporters all over the world, with- out doim the slightest service to the Arabs.
"We seem to have deprived selves of all the fruits of the past. We ought not to grudge a fair share of the deserts of the Negev to the Jews.
BEVIN'S RASH BET --"There--is--in-the-Negev,ut - Jemal,
an opportunity and, indeed, a hope of affording a refuge to the sur. vivors of the Jewish communities
Colantul
unable to carry out the United Na-whether the Government were right He did not intent to try to judge tions resolution and accordingly mained in New York, M: Creech Jones added,
REFUSES ADVICE.
After declaring policy in Palestine waste of money. British lives and
that, the British had led to vast repeated loss of Junillation ot every kind, Mr Churchill said: "We have at length evacuated but we stl find ourselves involved in this problem."
the Forein! Mr Churchill, said
not take ndvics. Secretary would
in the prevailing circumstances and in the aftermath of the evacuation of Palestine to send armed British forces to Alaba
Mr Churchill said he agreed that Britain could not disinterest herself in the fate of Transjordan in view of her obligations and her trenty.
"I should
not
like to see us repeat in Transjordan the behaviour have adopted in respect of Gur have treaty obligations with the princes and particularly with Nizam of Hyderabad,"
ክር
Indian the
an
forces to- of sending The act Akaba wore
an aspect of decision "It was six weeks ago when the unusual in recent British policy in Opposition forminlly mivised the Palestine, he said. Government to recognise Isruel." "I hope that, having gone there
we shall stay there and keep What he was going to do now. ample margin of forces there until The vast majority of the people the whole question has been dually know it would be a wise step to
decided by the United Nations and I am quite sure recognise Israel. he will have in recognise Israel and their award has been accepted and obeyed by both Jews and Arabs. that it cannot be long delayed;"
POLICY OF FOLLY
who have been massuered in so rested
many parts of Europe."
"But we feel bound to make our profests and to dissociate ourselves from a policy of folly, stupidity and fatuity the like of which it is not 33y to find in modern experience and for which the Foreign Secretary Cabinet are ins- and the present posible."
"De fueto recognition has never of settlement on the
If territorial borders," he fled. the Foreign Secretary had taken the Opposition's advice, he would have avoided a lot of trouble, he sold
It was absurd, Mr Churchill said, the question of the to compare the recognition of Indonesia with Israel, which had an effective organisation aid a victorious army.
Referring to Mr Bevin's state ment some lime ago that he would stalte his political reputation of set- tfing the Palestine problein, Mir Churchill said: "No more resh bet has ever been recorded antals of the British turf."
Mr Bevin: "Was it a greater bet
undertook flon you went after Denikin and Kaltchak?"
when ули
EVENT IN WORLD HISTORY
Mir Churchill then complained that RAF pilots were sent out on reconnaissance lights in conditions which exposed them to the greatest danger.
pince
"Whether anyone likes it or ct, A cease fire was to take
Mr Churchill: "I certainly did not the coming into being of the Jewish that afternoon yet in the mering stake my political reputation upon the success those generals would Stele in Palestine is an event
world history, hardly to be viewed have, but I think the day will come when it will be recognised, not only in the perspective of a generation but or a century but in the perspective House, on one side of the throughout the civilised world, that of one, two or even three thousand the strangling of Bolshevism at syears. birth would have been an untold blessing to the human race."
said
that
the
In the Government--the Prime Minister
properly took fuil responsibility-
of RAF sent a reconnaissance into the batile planes or fighting area which had been fing earlier in conjunction with Egyptian plates which were hostile to the Jewish forces.
"The recognition of Israel is not to be compared with the recognition
"We had to endure the affront of some countries with their Com- Mr Churchili
two young WO are and injury in which Clovernment had rejected the Anglo-manist banditti such as
resisting in Malaya or the anarchist airmen lost their lives and when American recommendations
forces the Dutch are trying to resist v. tumed to seek redress from the United Nations or the Commissions nations for The
•
polits. Mr Truman accepted one-
the
Mr Bevin: "We accepted the 10 in Indonservative Party, or many un the spot or other
100,000" (immigrants into et them in it, have always had in sympathy we were asked why we Palestine),
mind that there would develop a should go over this area at the very Mr Churchill added that no ugree-Jewish State."
moment of the cease fire. Mr Churchill said that now a no- "Why were not the special United ment was reached upon this issue,
Commission aeroplanes The Government, he said, had also tional Jewish home had come into be Nations
to both thai retuses to painted white and known refused to allow the United Nations ing, "it is Englund
Churchill our action we | sides as neutral, Mr Commission to enter the territory recognise it and by
of Palestine until a fortnight before ind ourselves regarded as its most asked. the termination of the mandate,
Etter enemy."
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"I remain yours very truly...
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THE SATUMDOWN CALMING, DINE
It was said that the Americans had encouraged Britain to find ou what was going on. Even if that was was true; the reconnaissance unnecessarily risky.
NOT IMPECCABLE
If he criticised the British Govern- ment, it was by no means to de clare that the Bitliude of the United States had been impeccable in this matter, Mr Churchill said.
.
"Considering the sentiment and interest they have in Palestine, they should have come to our ald two or three years ago."
If the British policy. had been
essential in the growing prosperity and development of the Jewish. settlementa in Palestine.
Mr Churchill said in conclusion: Wa (the Opposition) must take this opportunity; beyond doubt or ques- tion, to saver ourselves from this latest case of mismatingement of the Palentine question.
"We must make our protest against the course of action, pro- longed over nearly four years, which has deprived Britain of the credit she has card and the rights and interests she has, acquired and hug made her at once the mockery and scapegoat of very many States who have never made any positive con- tribution of their own."-Reuter.
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