Unfortunately, Nationalist China was (for whatever reason) not especially sympathetic to the Zionist cause, whether from the crypto-Communist origins of the Kuomintang or Chiang's long association with Chinese moslems or for some other reason (long after his departure, Taiwan once denied an Israeli flight to de-plane there, despite the commonality of the two nations as "pariahs" to much of the world). But it looks like in this one case they did the right thing (though they voted against the actual resolution when it came up) and didn't veto it from coming up for a vote.
Also unfortunately, Mme. Sun Yat-sen (whom Morris rescued from the Japanese) was a lousy Communist who lived out her years being lionized by the Russians at their "Sun Yat-sen University." Ironically, she was Mme. Chiang Kai-shek's sister.
As a final note, I'm not sure the claim that Morris was the only European to serve as a Chinese general is accurate. I recall Charles Gordon "Chinese" Gordon, the British military man who helped the Manchus subdu the Taiping rebellion.
Ping for y’all’s interest.
China was one of the few nations that let Jews settle to escape Nazi Germany. US and Europe due to Depression kept the Jews out to die in Germany. China after WW2 was economically devastated. The last thing they want is entanglements in the world. Voting for the partition meant war between Israel and the Arabs. China had no dog in the fight. We chose to back Israel, and we are entangled in the Arab Jewish conflict ever since. Maybe the Chinese were wiser then us.
Great story...I thought at first this was about Mickey Cohen