The Canadian Government’s policy of shipping arms to the Middle East was upheld in Commons yesterday when a Conservative motion of non-confidence in the Liberal Government of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent was defeated 140-79. The Conservatives had accused the government of “trafficking in tools of death.”
Meanwhile, at a press conference here yesterday, British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden reiterated his “conciliation and compromise” advice to Israel and the Arab states. Sir Anthony also repeated his suggestions for augmenting the size of Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns’ United Nations truce observer staff and for the creation of a two-kilo-metre buffer zone between Israel and Egypt which would be administered by UN observers.
A Foreign Office official accompanying the Eden party told newsmen that Britain had no intention of forcing the Eden proposals on either the Israelis or the Arabs. The spokesman noted that the British proposal called for unarmed UN observers to be sent to the two-kilometre zone, but at his press conference Sir Anthony said that the decision on arming the observers should be left to Gen. Burns.
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