A sit-point program of the Canadian Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, the country’s Socialist party, for the implementation of the U.N. Palestine partition decision was made public here today in the party’s official organ. The program provides:
1. The British Government and the Palestine Administration should be persuaded to help implement the U.N. decision.
2. The Security Council should immediately set up an international force for Palestine.
3. The Security Council should provide protection for the Palestine Commission, so that it may go to Palestine and begin building an alternative administration for the time when Britain leaves.
4. The Security Council should issue a warning to the Arab states demanding that as members of the U.N. they accept its decision and cease acts of aggression against Palestine.
5. The Security Council should lay plans for applying economic sanctions against those Arab states that refuse to heed the warning.
6. The Security Council and the Palestine Commission should carefully consider the position of Haganah, in view of the obvious need of the Jewish community for an effective self-defense force.
The publication also criticized the United States for refusing to “share the real burden of enforcing any solution” and termed the American policy “an unsavory mixture of irresponsible contradictions.” Asserting that the issue new is no longer whether the Zionist claim to Palestine is justified or whether partition is the best possible solution, the C.C.F. insisted that it is now a question whether the U.N. has the authority and courage to enforce its decisions.
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