Despite the British position on Palestine, sentiment in Canada is shifting toward support of compete implementation of the United Nations decision to partition Palestine.
In parliament, Minister for External Affairs Louis St. Laurent, in response to direct questioning from the floor, indicated that Canada will accept here full share of responsibility for any action which the Security Council may undertake to implement partition or restore peace to Palestine.
An attack on Britain’s Palestine policy was voiced in the Manitoba Provincial Legislature by M.A. Gray, Labor M.P. and a Jew, who expressed the hope that “Canada will continue to support the Palestine partition decision.” He praised the Canadian delegation at Lake Success for fighting for partition “against every open and covert attempt to defeat it.”
In Montreal, two local newspapers, the Herald and Standard, have warned that failure by the U.N. to implement its decision may mean the end of the international body. The Herald said that the future of the U.N. rests on its decision on the Palestine Commission’s request for an “adequate force” to implement partition, while the standard also rested its analysis of the situation on the question of an international force.
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