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1949

MEMORIAL PROTEST MEETING MAKNATYEKA

THE CONTROVERSY OVER THE VETO

THE

By

WICKHAM STEED

Former Editor of The Times (London)

HE President of the United again the divergence of view between

States has been severely Soviet Russia

Western and the criticised for having announced Powers appears to be profound. a policy of giving aid to Greece and Turkey without seeking in advance the approval of the United Nations.

Among the most outspoken of his critics is the Soviet delegate to the United Nations Security Council, Mr Andrei Gromyko, who in a speech to the Council on April 7 declared that the nc- tion of the United States. had weakened the authority of the United Nations Organisation and had undermined the mutual trust of its members.

.

to say this

NEW YORK. OR nearly a year now I have withstood the urge to write this article.

Palestinians down the Red Sea when Truman' was selling underwear;"

No wonder the English are bringing in the Germons to do their work in Britain they are doing the. Ger- Often the urge has been al- mans work in Palestine"). most too great.. For during One could even ignore

the sneers "this year there has seldom been of playwright Ben Hecht, who now

wrlies plays in order, to a day chat I have opened these helishipa in which to transport these charter 50-page New York newspapers unfortunates-filled with false hopes without having to read at least and equipped with phony passports one page given to the vilification to sight of the land that only he of Britain and some of the and his colleagues have promised people in it.

Paid advertisements occupy these pages, But not for 'sell- ing pots and pans. All they have been trying to sell hatred of Britain.

js

Why I have been seemingly delinquent in my duty by keep- ing silent about this virulent campaign of slander, near-lies and insults is that it has been sponsored by the American Zionists.

news-

Bien.

by

Typical of the line of talk is this

"You're desperate, Mr Boving your soldiers are shooting down

· four-year-old girls. Is this the regime you intend for Palestine? The viciousness of your words is in tune with the actions of your As occupation army in Palestine. long as you Insist upon deporting Hebrews from their own shores, Palzetine to Cyprus, there will be bloodshed. It is 1770 tyear of the American Revolution) in Pales tinci"

Another advertisement:--

"Give us the money....we'l get them there! Do it again; and again and again. The ships are ready...the crows are ready........... but the passengers are walking.... Now is the time to throw another

C. V. R. THOMPSON

I

It is harder-but still possible. suppose to slomath a Zionist maga- zine's practice of calling Britain's Foreign Minister Herr Devin, or pro-Zionist committee's preference to Mr Adolf Bevin.

But when

the

punch, the strongest one you can Sive more lezál' Ives to- day." a

In a statement concerning capture of the &... Abril (which they call the 6.8. Den Hecht) this American League for Free Palestine this:-

"itnowing the British record, We are not surprised that the Ben Hecht has been seized, nor will we be surprised at any cruelty perpetrated by the British" upon its passengers or crew.. We

that hereby inform the British we will keep drying until the Hebrews are in and the British are out."

An exposure in a British

these advertisement- paper of what they have been say-' page propagandists begin to provoke ing might easily have prejudiced the deliberate bloodshed In an attempt always delicate negotiations to to provide the United Nations with an accomplished fact, R is different. solve the Palestine problem, and thereby added further hurt to the That calls for any Englishman's pro- Zionists test, even an Englishman who is a displaced

persons these

quest of the city that is their main fondly imagine they are helping..

Besides, I have fell some conf stronghold.

That is what they are doing now. dence that before long some of the the eve that the establishment of a Zionist tactics Bellain and the United States be- Americans-inny of them of

Jewish faith who disapprove વર્ષ would speak system of estleet ve security against uglust

them. If

they did the American

HAVE before me some Bigression is an indispensible preli-Government, which, during the pre-

of the presumably

advertisements that have appear- minary to International disarmamen.. war years, frowned on unofficial ed in the New York Tress since The Zionist Organisation of Mr Gromyko, on behalf of

would Mr Bevin announced that the Pales- Soviet castigation of Hitler Germa break. :ine problem was going to the United Amerien asks for dollars to set up Russia, maintains, on the contrary, at least give Britain an that no system of ecurity can come They might possibly even repeuta Nailons.

law which makes contributions to Into force entil disarmament has this cumpalg deductible from in- been accomplished.

come tax.

וי

Silence

As far as my personal experience gues, efforts to atton International disarmament without adequate' pro- vision for collective security are Bit has approved the

and is, in effect, inspired by a wish to neutralise the Unled Stotts' menopoly of atomic any weapons before assenting to system of international security agamit aggression.

Brit,

the

What they print

Political

There is one from the Action Committee for Palestine, Inc. This is an organisation headed by Joseph Clark Baldwin, who recently sen! himself on an "impartial" mis- son of inquiry to Britain and Pales line.

Their

a Hibrew Government in exile. It has to be exlle for the moment, say these Zionists, because otherwise, "with planes and tanks and all the paraphernalia of modern warfare. this mighty Britain, which Americon blood and treasure have helped to preserve, will set upon the brave plancers,"

the

RUT the Press, no matter whether Zionist

ndvertisement calls for doomed to failure... think the campaign or not, lins, for the most £2,500,000 for an Exodus by Air to Another group, who call them-

United contention puts the

Zionists of cart part, kept silence about the adver- Palestine. They want the Govern- selves On the next day, Senator Vanden- Russian berg. Clinirman

boycolt by uf

tisements It has been printing, the Foreign before the horse,

ment to lease-lend them fleets of America, advertise for Relations Committee of the United

Worse, one New York newspaper Douglas Skymasters. They have the all the Americans of British goods, actually suppressed an anti-Zionist pilots and "a certain port in Europe" This is their line of talks:~~ States Senate, replied to Mr

speech by its proprietor. a NOTE- Gromyko when opening a debate on

from which four round trips a day Zionist American of Jewish faith. could be made to the Holy Land. the bill to authorise the polley of

Women and children giving help to Greece and Turkey.

And ull, presumably, because

would be Zionists have managed to intimidate landed at makeshift secre!" fields, While declaring that the

organs into believing as they Able-bodied men would be dropped United

40-that to be anti-Zionist is to be by parachute. Nations is the first rellonce and the

anti-Jewish. prime concern" of the United States in dealing with international pro- blems, Senator Vanderberg explain. I ed that the bill proposes to do what the United Nations Organisation cannot yet do, and affirmed that "goes to the hear; and etre of the Voto controversy.”

Dilemma

VHATEVER formal validity there. may be ha criticism of the United Stales for having bypassed the United Nations by acung witho antecedent approval from the Security Counol. 1 think that, prae- ideally, the criticism ignores the prospect that any application to the Security Council would have been "exposed to the Russian ̈velő,

n

In Urat event, the United States would have been confronted with serious dilemuna. Had it bowed to # Russian voto, it would have been debarred from giving help to Grecce and Turkey against pressure from quarters favoured by Soviet Russl. Otherwise, would have becn obliged to act in defiance of negative decision by the Security Council. In those circumstances, the United States Government zeema to have preferred to bypass the possibly of a vole.

This supposition is borne out by a further sistement in Senator Van- denberg's speech that Russian use of the veto within the Security Coun- e'l would be certain. In any phase

League Failure was upon a similar issue that the Lenge of Nations came to grief,,' Its Covenant prescribed a rule of unanimity for all major de cisions of the League Council; and this rule was Lilled to block an effective system of collective security, Consequently, all attempts to secure dicarmancut failed.

Reason for this new method: the attempt to break the British naval and blockade has falled, and 25 ships

As for the Government. it. has stayed silent for reasons best probably well known to itself.

even

The British Government con- ducts a war of extermination on British the Jewish people. The remnants of European Jewry con- tinie lo rot in concentration unprecedented comps. cel of military terror, en- deavour to turn the Jews

of ΟΙ

of

Palestine into generate, slaves "stand confronted by Mr Adolf Be- yin, who does not like New York Jews."

Worse is the American League for Free Palestine, the most violent of all the Zionist organisations. It is headed by an ex-senater, Mr Guy Gillette, who, while a senator, op- posed war old to Britain..

Even now I might possibly not be writing this article if the Palestine ozlem had not been placed in the hands of the United Nations.

When that happened I confidently expected that

the Zionists would shut up. I thought

they might even realise that, with the United Nations just round corner Inslend of across the Atlantic, their vicieus campaign might preju- dice their whole cause. They did not. Today the Zionists are worse member than ever.

could, perhaps, ignore in disregard of the Covenant, that cheap wisecracks of Walter Winchell line, is trying to stir up the New

-(complex:---"Brita'n---was--selling--York-Irish-again,-

It is true that Article 10 of the Caven unt contained one provision that "bypassed" the unanimity rule

y declaring that if any

of the League should resort to wor One

member should ipso facto" be deemed to have committed an act of war against all other members of the League. The potential efficacy of this prov.sion was reallsed $11 1935 in the ease of Italian aggression against Abyssinia, but the unwilling- ness of the Great Power act upun destroyed the authority of the

11

League.

British View

Na statement to the Security Coun

N

the

Others in top jobs with the or- ganisation are author Louis Brom- field ("The Rains Cane"), Ben Hecht, Will Rogers Jun. (son of the cowboy philosopher), actress Rutl Chatterton, and William B. Zin, the the unt-British author who, as a side-

BY THE WAY

and

the m

State. We can prove to Hiller's British successors of extermination campaign against wrong. It Jewry that they are

buy will refuse to Americans British products and refrain frem using British services, thuy will her quickly bring Britain to senses,"

That is only a brief selection.

Hecklers ready

AND then there are less easily A

visible campaigns, like the press- sure groups in Washington, which work on all the Jewish Congressmen others if they have strong Jewish colonics within their con- stituencies, and the pressure groups in New York which stand ready to hecklo supply a studio audience to nny importer of the British case in a radio forum. And so on.

Well, what effect are they having? On American Jewry I think they are having considerable effect, al though not as considerable as they claim,

But I have noticed breaks out. Everybody knows bet- contact with Jewish

by Beachcomber

VERY time London is given a

new statue, the same old row

O word has reached the In passing

carth from the rocket Utopia, so presumably it is still soaring towards the moon. One may discount those strange rumours which any scientific

itself today.

tween us.

own

In my friends that

cil on April 4, the Britisa dele-experiment always attracts to be like, and everybody hates the have often received letters

gate, Sir Alexander Cadogan, dwelt

remem-

ter than the sculptor what it should there is now an awkwardness be

On the other hand,

sculptor's work. I read that the people I hardly know asking me

1

from

afraid militant

pon the significance of the veto, or A Dauphinols herdsman in the Roosevelt statue "has been foisted to believe that many of Jews are the rule of unanimity among Its Graislvaudan valley reports a "ball on the public," who were not con- ashamed of what the noisy Zionists of the conflict between Communism ment members, in the life of of flame upside down" high over the sulted about it. Statues should, of are saying. and Demcerecy." Scr

emccracy." Senator Vanden- the United Nations. He pointed out Doigt de Dleu. From Nicaragua course, be designed by moss meet- And

there stands out in my berg doubtless had in mind both the that by insisting on the unanimity of comes word of a sausage-shaped me ings, after a Gallup poll. The ex-memory an experience of a visiting Russian veto in the case of Albania permanent members of the Council, teor plunging into space. Watchers

the Soviet Union appeared to mean on Corfu saw a

Englishman who got toothache: A and Mr Gremyko's fillure to ac-

sparks quisito tosie of the day would then Jewish dentist took care of him and, series of that other permanent members blown across the sky. A shepherd have a chance to express itself. cept the subsequent British resolu

should conform to Is view,

when naked for a bill, sald: "No tion that the Security Council re-

even in the

a whirring Caucasus heard

You guys have got By the way, put a stone bowler charge. commend both parties.to the Al when it was in a minority of one, sound in the night, but saw nothing. banian dispute to submit it to the This, he suld, should be

LATER: A radio message from on the head of King Charles in enough troubles without paying me." bered when it was said that

and you the the Utopia says that the rocket Is. Whitehall,

will at once International Court of Justice.

On other Americans I am principle of

and realise that modern clothes do not that the tactics of these of onenimity must apply 1,120,000 miles above Upsala, is the enforcement of a system of going sideways,

easily lend themselves to the sculp- Zlonists are doing their cause-if,! collective security against a violator

tor's art. Nor do modern sculptors indeed their cause is to help Jewry' water

-more harm than good. of my convention atomic energy or a violator

Super-satellite other aspect of disarmament.

WHEN one considers the appalling

These Americans, confusing the org In ether words, full efficacy of the death-rate in the Middle Ages. PEOPLE who live in what are to noisy Zionists with all Jews United Nations Organisation appears one realises that a pubile with a low become "satellite towns thought becoming Increasingly anti-Semitie to be incompatible with the pream standard' of hygiene, and exposed to that, when evicted, they might be, Not openly, but underground. And, use of the voto, And it is this gitun unscrubbed pictures, ran risks which allowed to live, if possible, in vil- that is worse. IN this controversy He not only tion that lcnds'espeelal interest to we have eliminated today. The death- lages near these towns. But the Suct

So my advice, to the New York the contents festes now under Senator Vandenberg's claim that the rate among visitors to the Royal Plan, published today, makes it Zionist is this? Try a little honest- Discussion at the Moscow Conference United States policy of giving old Academy. is falling gear by year,

clear that every satellite town will criticism of Britain for a change., of Foreign Ministers, but the larger to Greece and Turkey goes to the owing largely to the provision of havo, as annexes, a ring of satellite That is your right, and anyone control of

villages to which the privileges of olau's, too. If you can't do that, why questions of disarmament and of heart and core of the vdio centro-huplente „pleturca.

Hero versy."

celction will be extended. (Mr Charles Dioppalach)

don't you, shut up?·

In any event. Senator Vanden berg's speech amounts to n sugges tion that the velo controversy" cannot be satisfactorily settled with

if deЛnite curtailment. not abrogation, of the veto itself.

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