A United Nations decision on Palestine should be applied and supported with “vigor,” Lord Herbert Samuel declared last night during the course of a foreign policy debate in the House of Lords. The first British High Commissioner for Palestine said he hoped that the Bernadotte plan for Palestine would be carried out with some minor amendments.
Lord Henderson, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, announced that readmission of Israel to the sterling bloc “could not be considered at present.” He also said that the moat fitting tribute to Count Bernadotte would be acceptance of his proposals as the basis for peace in Palestine.
British Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie today appealed to the British people not to permit the use of Bernadotte’s murder as a pretext for anti-Semitism. In a letter to the London Times, Rabbi Brodie reminded the British of the recent treatment afforded the Jews by the Nazis and declared that the “fatal temptation” of condemning an entire community for the crime of an individual has been responsible for “some of the greatest tragedies” in history.
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