Israeli Application for U.N. Membership Delayed Spokesman Hits British Stand on Bid

The Israeli application for U.B membership sustained an additional delay today when the Soviet bloc in the General Committee launched a long debate on other items. The Committee will meet again tomorrow, but it appears that it may not reach the Israeli application until Friday.

Meanwhile, a spokesman of the Israeli mission to the U.N. today branded the British stand on Israel’s application for admission as a twin violation of the Assembly decisions. The Israeli statement followed a British announcement that it will sustain in the voting on the application unless the Israeli Government makes clear its position on the problems of the Arab refugees and Jerusalem, presumably to the satisfaction of the British.

The Israeli spokesman says the British stand violates the Paris Assembly decision of December 8, 1948, which in effect rules out any opposition to admission except on grounds based on the U.N. Charter provisions. The Charter simply specifies that a nation need be peace-loving and capable of carrying out its responsibilities as a member to be entitled to a seat in the world organization.

In addition, the Israeli mission says the British stand is a violation of the Assembly resolution which set up the Palestine Conciliation Commission as the legal organ for bringing about a solution of the outstanding peace problems in Palestine. If the British conditions were complied with, the refugee and Jerusalem problems world in effect be taken out of the hands of the Commission and placed in the hands of the Political Committee. At best, the work of the Commission would be snarled. ## the worst, the debate might upset the delicate atmosphere in which the Commission ## even now trying to set peace talks in motion.