The U.N. Trusteeship Council’s statute for an international regime in Jerusalem was characterized here tonight by Aubrey S. Eban, Israel delegate to the U.N., as a document which would have constituted an “utter disgrace if applied to a backward and illiterate African colony a half-century ago.” Mr. Eban was speaking at a dinner forum of a two-day conference on the atomic era sponsored by the Nation Associates here.
However, the Israel diplomat pointed out that “the last word on this unedifying document has not been said,” adding that the “voice of repentance” is heard on many sides. He asserted that the only area in the world where any nation still hopes for “a nice cheap war with an assured superiority of purely conventional armaments” is in the Middle East. Pointing out that Israel is “passionately wedded to the principles of parliamentary democracy,” Mr. Eban asserted that Israel would be open to accusations of defeatism if it were to assume that no regional peace in the Near East is possible until parliamentary institutions replace the monarchies of that area.
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