Britain’s leading liberal organ, the Manchester Guardian, called on the British Government today to extend immediate recognition to the state of Israel. Overlong delay of recognition, the Guardian warned, would go for nothing and would be an “ill-graced surrender to events.”
The paper added that recognition of Israel as an element in a durable settlement of the Palestine problem would serve British interests well and it advised the Arab states that they would lose less “face” by bowing to the United Nations than have to admit later that “Israel was too hard a nut for them to crack.”
The London Times, in an editorial today, said that the detention of the five British engineers by Israeli authorities on espionage charges is a stumbling block to British recognition of the Jewish state. It warned that the “kidnappings of the five Britons raised issues of international morality which cannot be brushed aside by the Provisional Government of Israel for the sake of immediate political advantage.
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