Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Christopher Mayhew today reiterated that Britain is not yet prepared to recognize Israel and listed the reasons for the British Government’s stand. His reply was made in writing to a question asked in Parliament.
The government, Mayhew said, believes that Israel has not get fulfilled the conditions which would qualify her for statehood under international law. He listed the following requirements as unfulfilled; authority must be exercised over a specified territory within definite boundaries; the government must be able and willing to fulfill international obligations; and, it must have a reasonable degree of stability. In addition, Mayhew said, while the Palestine question is still under discussion by the United Nations, Britain does not consider it right to prejudge the results of that discussion.
Describing the Israeli victory in the Galilee as “decisive as was the Negev campaign,” the Tel Aviv correspondent of the Times today telegraphed that “whatever that “whatever the United Nations supervisory board may decide, the situation in Palestine has drastically changed for a second time in so many weeks.”
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