CROWDS DEMONSTRATE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22593, 23 March 1948, Page 5

CROWDS DEMONSTRATE

U.S. REVERSED POLICY „ r , NEW YORK, March 21. ,While Mr. Marshall was addressing his audience on the University of California campus on Saturday, nearly 1000 persons demonstrated outside the campus gates against the United Stales reversal of policy. They carried placards, some of which read: “Which major oil company runs the White House?” and “Is oil more valuable than blood?” No violence is reported. U.S. FACES - HARD FACTS LONDON, March 21. “By abandoning the Palestine partition plan the United States has accepted the hard logic of the facts,” says the Times in a leader. “Manifestly, it is not possible to put the partition scheme into operation peacefully and the Americans propose instead a fresh start in solving the problem, which now raises international issues of the most serious kind.

Both the Security Council and the Assembly have beer) discussing this grave matter with their heads in the clouds. The American proposal should bring both bodies down to earth.”