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...uncertain peace had passed since the battleship King George V slipped into Annapolis, carrying Lord Halifax to his new post as war-torn London's Ambassador to Washington. Last week, on the eve of homegoing and retirement, the tall, mild statesman looked into the troublous future, saw Anglo-American friendship as "a patch of good firm ground on which we can stand and be secure." Said...
Last week President Truman hailed the long awaited report of the Anglo-American Committee on Palestine (see INTERNATIONAL). But the reluctance of U.S. political leaders to assume any responsibility in carrying out the Committee's plan was all too evident. Was this a measure of the nation's attitude...
Only a miracle comparable to the parting of the Red Sea or the revelation of the Koran could have made the Anglo-American Committee's report on Palestine (TIME, May 6) entirely palatable to Arabs, Jews and the British Empire. By refusing to recommend either an Arab or a Jewish Palestine, by supporting neither totally restricted nor totally unrestricted Jewish immigration, by hewing to the line of compromise through 40,000 considered words, the Committee found itself in a no man's land between uncompromising factions...
...machine that includes the newspaper Hoy (Today), schools, sound trucks, cut-rate bookshops, a big radio station, and a troop of "Socialist Boy Scouts" attacks U.S. foreign policy daily. Hoy's Moscow-syllabled appraisal of last week's march past: a demonstration of "workers' opposition to Anglo-American reactionary maneuvers and imperialistic penetration...
...confusion of Arab threat and British evasion that has followed publication of the report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, the un- or misinformed citizen is hard-put to choose a position of justice without stagnation. His leaders have failed him, failed to point out for the citizens of the world the path, at last discovered, to the solution of the Palestine problem...