Senator Wayne Morse, Oregon Republican, questioning the U.S. reversal on Palestine, told the Senate that if the United Nations reverses its decisions every time a nation threatens the peace by refusing to comply with such decisions “it can never survive as an instrumentality for maintaining peace.”
He called for more facts “than those that have been given us to date in regard to our Government’s position on the Palestine issue.” Thus far, Morse said, “I have been able to reach no other conclusion on the basis of such information as has been supplied to me to date, than that the position of our government is not one on the merits or demerits of partition, but only on the question as to whether enforcement of partition might endanger peace.
“If the State Department and the U.S. delegate to the United Nations consider that on the merits of partition they should reconsider the proposal, then I am ready to reconsider,” Morse said, “but if it is a question of enforcement of partition, then, I think, if we are to have international government by law, we are going to have that issue of enforcement.”
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