Israel’s application for membership in the United Nations will be considered tomorrow by the Security Council. The fate of the application rests with the French Government which holds the seventh and deciding vote required to obtain Security Council endorsement of the Israeli membership bid.
Meanwhile, it was learned here today from highly reliable sources that the British Government is secretly sounding out the Israeli Government on the possibility of granting the Jewish state de facto diplomatic recognition. The specific basis of such recognition would be the establishment of a British Consulate General in Tel Aviv.
This latest development follows the recent foreign policy debate in Commons in which Conservative Party leaders Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden and representatives of the Liberal Party demanded some sort of recognition for Israel. Progress in the matter in indicated by the arrival here of Richard Marriott, British Consul General in Haifa.
Marriott’s experiences in Haifa have brought the British to the realization that they must take some official notice of Israel. When the Jews captured Haifa with its vital terminus for the pipeline from Iraq and Transjordan Marriott, attempting to protect British interests, addressed communications on the fats of the refineries to members of the Israeli Government, but in their capacity as individuals. The letters were returned because the Jewish officials lacked authority to handle the matter as individuals, thus forcing the British to seek a new solution to the dilemma.
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