Israel was firmly established today in the new and growing line-up of United Nations member states with a double-barrelled program for a Far Eastern peace settlement – the naming of Communist China as aggressor in Korea, but this act to be followed by continuous efforts for negotiation and conciliation rather than by punitive action as demanded by the United States.
Led by Great Britain, the new front seemed to be composed principally of Western states having Labor governments. Israel, which had been watchfully waiting for an indication of the attitudes of other Labor regimes, entered the list Friday with a key policy address by its chief delegate. Ambassador Abba Eban, who suggested that the General Assembly’s Peace Observation Committee, of which Israel is a member, should be the group called for in the United States resolution.
Mr. Eban denounced exclusion of Communist China from the United Nations as “an error of historic dimensions,” urged the United States to remove from its condemnation resolution the proposal that sanctions against China be considered, and appealed for continued negotiations with Peiping, saying its conference proposals, communicated last week through India, represented a “visible movement towards” the United Nations’ Known peace principles.
The Israeli spokesman asserted that talking things over was a correct procedure but not while “shooting things over” at the same time. He expressed the hope that the delegations close to China would not take the defeatist attitude towards a finding of aggression, pointing out that Peiping had called the United States an aggressor but simultaneously suggested it join in a peace conference.
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