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Chronicle (Levin), 8 February 1947, Page 5

Received Friday, 8.10 p.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 7. The New Zealauder, Hector Bolitlio, participating in a broadcast debate on Balestine, said: "America is now the greatest Power in the world. Your responsibilities to the world are therefore the greatest. One of them is to share the task of settling Jews in Palestine or your own country where tliere is .-m uiuch space. Britain can no longer be left alone in this. 8he is weary wuii two million houses uninhabitable from bombing, short of food, weary. It is unjust that her soldiers alone should go on being shot in Palestine in support of this iiiLghty- experiment. ' ' Asked by a niember of the audience 1 why Errgland does not hand over the mandate to United Nations, Mr. Bolitho said: "I certaiiily think she should. I would be delighted and very proud. J. am a New Zealander and am speaking, as it were, from that distance. 1 think it would be a great and very noble thing. if England stepped out." Other debaters were David BenGurion, chairxnau of the Jewish Ageney for Palestine, wlio spolce from London over a two-vvay hook-up; James MeDonald, a meinber of the Anglo-Ameri-ean Comniittee on problems of the Jews in Europe and Palestine; and also Kermit Roosev-elt, formerly with the United States Army in the Middle East.