The text of a British note to the United Nations, officially submitting the Palestine case for U.N. consideration was reported today to have been completed. However, it will not be submitted before it is approved by Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin who is now in Moscow attending the “Big Four Foreign Ministers parley. It is believed that Bevin will discuss the Lie proposal for a fact-finding committee with Secretary of State George C. Marshall.
The British Government has not yet replied to the U.S. request for concrete recommendations to the United Nations regarding action on Palestine, it was learned in official U.S. circles today. The matter remains in the same transitional stage in which it has been since Feb. 19, when Secretary Marshall asked for clarification from Bevin. It is felt in official circles in Washington that a considerable number of studies on Palestine have been made in the past and that it may be unnecessary to make any more.
(The possibility that the Palestine issue will receive the attention of President Truman and of Congress in connection with the developments in Greece and Turkey, was indicated in Washington today. White House press secretary Charles C. Ross announced that the President’s message to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday would encompass the Near East.)
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