Jamal Husseini, representative of the Palestine Arab Higher Committee, today notified the U.N. Security Council that the Arabs will not negotiate any truce with the Jewish Agency because they do not consider the Agency as representative of the Palestine Jews.
After spending two hours with Dr. Alfonso Lopez, president of the Council, and discussing the truce question with him, Husseini told newsmen that if truce talks are held, the Arabs will conduct them only with the Security Council. Late in the afternoon, following his conference with Husseini, Dr. Lopez met with Moshe Shertok on the problem of an armistice.
At a press conference this morning U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie said that truce between Jews and Arabs is essential to the success of the U.S. trusteeship plan for Palestine.
The Palestine Commission today decided to recall from Palestine only two members of its six-man advance party — the legal expert and the economic advisor, They will be available to the event that the special U.N. session on Palestine requires their services. Pablo Ascarate, head of the advance party, and i## security expert will remain in Jerusalem with the secretaries.
(President Truman declared at his weekly press conference today that the question of inducing the British to stay in Palestine is pending before the United Nations and he had, therefore; no comment to make in answer to a query addressed to his on this subject. The President also declined to comment on where were any modification of the arms embargo on Palestine is under consideration.)
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