2 NOVEMBER 1956, Page 7

A Spectator's Notebook

THu SPECTACLE of America and Russia joining up on the opposite side to ourselves in the Security Council, as they did On Tuesday, is as depressing as it is unfamiliar. But it is not unique. And it was also the trouble-torn Middle East which once before caused some strange grouping. In November, 1947, on the motion for the partition of Palestine Britain abstained While America, Russia, Australia and Canada voted for it.

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