Dr. Jorge Garcia Granados, retiring Guatemalan Ambassador and chief delegate to the United Nations, charged today that Arab bands have been permitted to enter Palestine on the condition that they delay the opening their attacks upon the Palestine Jews until May 15th, the date when the British ?date ends. “This,” he added, “is invasion by consent–and the blame for it falls on the shoulders of the British.”
The Guatemalan Ambassador issued his statement at a press conference and reception given in his honor at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel by the Zionist Organization of America. Dr. Emanuel Neumann, ZOA president, presided and paid tribute to Dr. Granados.
Calling attention to the fact that he was a member of the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine and that he had signed the majority report, Dr. Granados denounced ?eat Britain’s “policy of obstruction against the United Nations’ decision to partition Palestine despite her specific promises.”
The Guatemalan diplomat cited the answer of Sir Alexander Cadogan that Great Britain “as a good member of the United Nations would not obstruct partition.” Dr. Granados also deplored the “lack of desire on the part of the United States and other Governments to implement this United Nations’ decision despite the firm position she look in the fight for it and, third, the current trend of thought which suggests that because there is now violence in Palestine, partition is impracticable and not the proper solution.”
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