The five-nation Implementation Commission ?y unanimously agreed that an international force would be necessary to implement Palestine partition decision, and decided to ask the Security Council to provide? a force.
The decision came after a discussion on the Philippine resolution of last ?k, asking for the establishment of an international force. The main knotty problem ?ing the Commission is how to ask the Council for troops before the Commission ar?es in Palestine. However, a spokesman for the Commission said there was “pretty ?eral understanding” that the Council is to be approached.
At an official briefing to the press after today’s session concluded, it was ?icated that the Commission is paving the way for an approach to the Council on basis of its legal rights under the Assembly decision; secondly, the Commission submit to the Council the facts of the prevailing situation in Palestine as established by the British, Jewish Agency and other reports as well as daily press ?orts.
Sir Alexander Cadogan, chief British delegate at the United Nations, will ?pear tomorrow before the Implementation Commission to reply to questions concerning wish immigration and the British withdrawal from a port in the Jewish area of the country.
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