ARABS WARN U.N.

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22572, 27 February 1948, Page 5

ARABS WARN U.N.

MAY GIVE_FULL AID PALESTINE BRETHREN PARTITION CHALLENGED (N.Z.P. A. —Copyright,) (10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Feb 26. The Arab States might be forced to give full-scale aid to the Arabs in Palestine if the situation grew worse, said Mahmoud Fawzi Bey. Egypt, when the Security Council resumed its debate on Palestine yesterday. The disorders in Palestine so far had not fully assumed the proportions of a civil war although they were rapidly becoming such. “Until now the Arabs inside and outside P" ,OT *ine have exercised the est possible restraint under extreme provocation. The number of volunter. s who have mined their brethren ir, Palestine so far was small. The Arab States have not intervened in the •irrned dispute." Mahmoud Fawzi Bey claimed that Ihe Zionists were getting practically all the arms they required, and "with their octuous-like influence throughout the world, are obstructini the Arab efforts to arm for self-defence."

He said that Egypt's position could be summed up thus - "We take the General Assembly’s resolution for what it is—a ■■■'ere recommendation to the Egyptian Government More than that we consider the General Assembly is not competent to make that recommendation, it? view of the difference of opinion on lhi» question of competence, we rer'uasted early in the Assembly's debates that the International Court of Justice ‘-e asked toi an advisory opinion. This has not beer. done, consequently E'" - nt will be guided bv her own views of the nowers conferred on the General As■•?mbiy by the Charter.”

He annealed to the council to consider other volutions besides partition to the problem.