The U.N. Implementation Commission tonight deferred submission of its special report on the security situation in Palestine to the Security Council until next Monday. This means that the Council will not act on the report until Thursday or Friday.
Up to this moment, the United States delegation to the Security Council is without instructions from Washington regarding the U.S. stand on the proposal to implement partition with an international police force.
Beyond the Truman-Marshall general declaration that the U.S. will stand by the partition scheme, the American delegation is completely in the dark. However, the delegation expects instructions to arrive before the Council discusses the issue.
John Reedman, a member of the United Nations Economics Affairs Division, left today for London to confer with British officials on the acute food shortage in Palestine. The U.N. Palestine Commission had been informed by the British that food stockpiles in Palestine would fall dangerously low if they were not replenished by March 31.
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