The General Assembly’s Special Political Committee, which has faced an anti-Semitic barrage staged by Arab representatives attacking Israel on the Arab refugee question, canceled its scheduled afternoon session today. While there was no reason officially given for the cancellation, the suspension was believed linked to the anti-Semitic crusade begun by the Arabs last week, reaching a crescendo yesterday.
Ambassador Micahel S. Comay, Israel’s permanent representative to the United Nations, is now scheduled to deliver an address to the committee tomorrow morning. Mr. Comay has been on the list for a speech since late last week. He kept postponing it, reportedly because he waited for the United States to finalize its approach to the Arab refugee problem.
Today, however, it became clear that Mr. Comay has set a side his original speech, which was to have castigated the annual report filed here by Dr. John H. Davis, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refuges. Instead, it is believed now, Mr. Comay will deal in his address with the anti-Semitic tirades voiced by the Arabs. Israel is sure to attack the Davis report as pro-Arabic. But that will be done later, perhaps in the full political statement to be made on the Arab refugee issue by Israel’s Foreign Minister, Mrs. Golda Meir.
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