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it is seldom well unless somebody is working hard and with careful forethought to ensure that it is so. And the Assembly's solution could have been effective had we taken the necessary steps to ensure that it was. There were others last November who, apprehensive, and justly apprehensive, that this great, and it was hoped, final attempt, to solve the Palestinian problem could not be carried out without force, were nevertheless content to believe that that force had in fact been provided. Those who answered New Zealand's repeated appeals for means of implementation told us of two sources of enforcement power which, by implication, they''suggested were adequate. We were told, in the first place, that there was to be an Arab militia and a Jewish militia, and that these two militias would be able to keep order. Well, that again shows an order of simplicity which is quite beyond my comprehension, and I pass that over for what it is worth. And, finally, we were told that there was always the Security Council which would see to enforcement. Well, all that one needs to say in this connection is to ask delegates to regard the situation as it exists to-day and the steps that the Security Council has found itself able to take. I repeat that the Assembly in its November decision did the right thing, but, by reason of its failure to provide for implementation, it did the right thing in the wrong way, and because of our error then, as the result of our error then, we have the situation to-day. The result of our error is death, bloodshed, murder, outrage, and agony in Palestine. The result of our error then is a grave risk that the Assembly of the United Nations is in serious and humiliating danger of losing the public confidence upon which its authority in the last resort depends. We have to-day, therefore, an additional problem not only how to do justice to both Jew and Arab, but how to avoid wrecking the authority and the influence of the Assembly. I say to you that neither this organization nor, indeed, any of its members can hope to give to the world the lead of which the world is so sorely in need, unless that lead is steady and consistent, unless the course that is set yesterday is the course that is followed steadily to-day and to-morrow. The alternative is inevitable confusion and dismay. I am far from suggesting that where circumstances have altered policies must remain immutable, but the submission of the New Zealand delegation is this : that if partition with economic union was right in November, it is right to-day, and, indeed, I have heard no logical suggestion to the contrary. The circumstances have not changed in the slightest. The only new factor that has arisen in respect of Palestine since the matter was so carefully considered and decided in November is a detestable series of murders and outrages in Palestine. And by both sides, for there is no one who can defend or explain or excuse the violence for which it seems clear certain sections of the Jewish community have been responsible, any more than it is possible to defend or explain or excuse the violence for which certain sections of the Arab community have been responsible. Both call for the strongest censure, the utmost detestation ; both call for repression by lawful force. And if an attempt is made, as in logic no doubt it can be made, to draw a distinction between Jewish activities as intended on the whole to support the decision of