Australia will not necessarily hold to the position on the question of an international regime for Jerusalem that it took at last year’s Assembly session, it was learned today from well-informed sources.
It was an Australian resolution for rigid internationalization which last December became the majority-approved U.N. plan which Israel has been fighting all year. So far the plan has failed to be implemented. Since adoption of that resolution, the Australian Government has changed hands–from Labor to Conservative–and the new government, it is learned, will probably be in a mood to seek a compromise on the issue when it comes up for reconsideration later in this session of the Assembly. Just what form such a compromise could take, it was indicated, has not yet been considered by the Australian delegation.
At any rate, the new Australian attitude will remove a strategic power from the camp of diehards sponsoring full internationalization of Jerusalem. Earlier this year, the Soviet bloc also shifted its position from this camp.
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