The United States Government will support the application of the Israeli Government for membership in the United Nations when that application is submitted, it was learned here today.
An American delegation spokesman, who said that the decision to hack Israel had been reached in Washington within the past few days, stated that support would be forthcoming at both the Security Council, where the application is first filed and voted upon, and at the General Assembly, where final action is taken.
An Israeli delegation official, asked to comment on this development, declared that his government is determined to press for early admission to the international body, despite the known opposition of several delegations on the Council. The Israeli mission is preparing a special memorandum, to accompany its application, which will point out that it is entitled to membership as a creature of the U.N. The memorandum will also cite the Israeli Government’s record of strict adherence to all U.N. orders throughout the admittedly difficult Palestine negotiations.
The charge that Count Folke Bernadotte has become “a representative of the anti-Israel bloc headed by Great Britain,” is made today by the New York Post in an editorial declaring that “Bernadotte has outlined his usefulness as a mediator in the effort to achieve a lasting and just peace in the Middle East.”
“A strong tendency to regard the armed attack upon Israel as a justifiable method of negotiation has been evident for same time in the mediator’s attitude toward the problems arising from the failure of the United Nations to enforce its partition decision,” the Post says. “The original proposals by the Count to establish an all-Arab capital for King Abdullah in Jerusalem should have been the signal for his removal. And now no further excuse can be found for continuing his services in the guise of an objective representative of the United Nations. He has become the open advocate of the joint British-Arabian plan to force Israel to open her borders to Arabs, while at the same time insisting that Jewish immigration be blocked,” the editorial declares.
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