Terrorists Held to be Killing Last Hope of Agreement

Grey River Argus, 21 May 1947, Page 5

Terrorists Held to be Killing Last Hope of Agreement

(Rec. 9.50). NEW YORK, May 20. The New York Herald Tribune has an editorial on Palestine. It says:— “High hopes for a more or less rational settlement of the Palestine problem, which had been engendered by unexpectedly successful special session?,' of the United Nations General Assembly, have been rudely compromised by the decision of the Jewish resistance in Palestine to continue its guerrilla war with Britain. The Soviet delegate, M. Gromyko’s address, committing Russia to a position close; ly parallel to that of the former Anglo-American commission on Palestine, opened for the first time a possibility of an all round and roughly equitable solution, provided that the terrorism could be halted, and all could be brought to a reasonable view. The Irgun and the Stern Group have failed to see things this way, and it seems probable that more terror will produce only more bitter and violent reactions everywhere, and that the fugitive chance of a reasonable settlement will, in the end, be lost”.