The annual conference of the British Labor party, which has been meeting here since Monday, is expected to back the government’s Palestine policy, despite the fact that it has been attacked in advance consolutions prepared by regional party groups and has been under fire from left ##ngers in the party.
Foregn Minister Bevin, who is due here today, is expected to discuss with the party executive tonight the approach to be taken during the debate on Palestine, which is scheduled for tomorrow. Bevin himself is likely to participate in the Right which is almost certain to develop.
The conference today defeated a resolution proposed by Richard Crossman and other ##rebels” calling for a sharp reduction in British military commitments in the Middle ##est. He Insisted that Britain was faced with the choice of cutting the number of ##roops maintained abroad or reducing its food imports. Ian Mikardo, left-wing M.P., ##idiculed a statement by Bevin in Commons last week that cutting military commitments in the Middle East would lower the wages of British workers. He commented arcastically that Britain did not need 200,000 troops “to buy oranges in Palestine, #il from Iraq and cotton from Egypt.” Chanceller of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton ##arged the defeat of the resolution on the grounds that it anticipated tomorrow’s ##ebate on foreign policy.
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