For the first time in the recent history of the British Labor Party not a single local branch of the party has introduced a Palestine resolution for consideration at the party’s next annual conference, scheduled to be held at Scarborough beginning May 17, two days after Britain’s Palestine Mandate terminates, it was revealed here today with the release of the conference’s preliminary agenda.
Paole-Zion, the Jewish group affiliated with the Labor party, however, has introduced a resolution on Palestine which bails the U.N. General assembly’s partition decision and declares that all member states of the U.N. are obligated to cooperate in its implementation. “Britain, which as the Mandatory Power has been responsible for the administration of the country for nearly three decades and had invoked the authority of the U.N. in this question, has an additional responsibility to ensure that the decision will be upheld,” the resolution states.
Among 400 resolutions to be introduced at the conference, at least 12 propose legislation in Britain. The resolutions, expressing alarm over the increase of “fascist activities in many guises in the country,” urge that the home Secretary be granted the power to disband any group advocating racial and religious discrimination.
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