Evatt and the Partition Plan, The Australian Jewish News (Josh Burns), 24 November 2022
On November 29, 1947 the United Nations General Assembly voted, by 33 votes to 13, with 10 countries abstaining and one absent, to approve a plan to partition the territory known as Mandatory Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. One of the leading architects of the plan was Australia’s Dr H V…