The sharp criticism leveled against Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin for his Palestine policy over the week-end foreshadows a stormy parliamentary session on Tuesday when the Palestine case is brought to the floor by ##P.’s from all parties, it was indicated here today. The Sunday Observer, after noting speeches made here yesterday by Clement navies, Liberal Party leader, and Harold MacMillan, Conservative M.P., in which they ?cathingly attacked Bevin’s Palestine policy,” denounced the British Foreign Secretary’s policies as “evil and foolish,” The paper dismissed charged of pro-Soviet ##endencies in Israel, declaring that “it is Bevin’s who is now playing straight into ##ssian hands by sharpening the conflict to a point where even British-American unity #ay become strained.”Terming as “hypocrisy” the British Foreign Office’s claim to support the U.N. Security Council’s resolutions while “implicitly annulling the basic General Assembly resolution” by labelling reconquest of the Negev “aggression,” the Sunday newspaper Stated that “all this makes it hard to believe that Bevin is generally working to help bring about a peaceful settlement.”
Most newspapers here featured reports of a Liberal Party meeting last night Westminster at which immediate British recognition of Israel and admission of the Jewish state to the U.N. were urged. The Sunday Pictorial, in a front-page article by Richard Cros3man, M.P., headlined “I Accuse Bevin,” said the entire present crisis will lead to a “humiliating British climb-down, unless we get a new foreign secretary who will restore our shattered Middle East prestige by recognizing Israel.”
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