Sen. Robert A. Taft in a statement to the press tonight labeled President Truman’s statement on Israel Sunday night as “uncertain and wavering” as his previous course.
“In one sentence he says that he still adheres to the Democratic platform pledge that no changes shell be made in the boundaries fixed in the United Nations partition resolution of Nov. 29, 1947. In the next he says that the Bernadotte plan changing the boundaries, cutting the state of Israel in half and wholly unacceptable to the state of Israel, should be used as a basic of negotiation. If this means anything, it means that the Truman administration proposes to bring pressure to bear on the state of Israel to accept something which violates every promise made to them,” he said.
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