Canada, China Support Belgian Stand at Security Council Against Partition Commitments

Canada and China came out today at the U.N. Security Council in support of the U.S. resolution for the establishment of a Big Five committee to investigate whether the situation in Palestine constitutes a throat to world peace.

At the same time, the representatives of these two countries gave unqualified support to the Belgian amendment to the American resolution which eliminates any commitment on the part of the Security Council to implement the partition decision of the General Assembly.

China’s delegate, Dr. Tsiang, drew a sharp distinction between implementing partition and implementing the peace. The Canadian delegate, Gen. Andrew G. L. McNaughton, said that the Big Five committee should have the “freest possible hand” in probing the situation in Palestine. He pointed out that the Council is not empowered to implement partition and declared that the immediate objective should 1)6 to exhaust a last effort at Aral)-Jewish conciliation. At the same tine, he emphasized that his statement need not be interpreted as a repudiation of the Assembly’s partition decision.

(Senator James Murray, speaking on the floor of tie Senate today, attacked the U.S. proposal to the Security Council. Major Samuel Weiser, chairman of the Hebrew Legion in Britain, who arrived today in Hew York, asserted that 3,000 British veterans — one-third of whom are non-Jewish — have volunteered to fight for the Jewish state in Palestine.)

Egyptian representative Mahmoud Fawzi proposed several changes in the Belgian amendment. Earlier, the Syrian delegate Faris El-Khouri announced that the representative of Lebanon, who was scheduled to address the Council, had suffered a cardiac attack and was now in the hospital. The Council then adjourned until Friday.

JEWISH AGENCY ASKS U.N. RECOGNITION FOR PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT

Jewish Agency representatives at the United Nations today notified the U.N. Palestine Commission of the decision taken by the Jewish National Council of Palestine to establish a Provisional Council of Government there, in accordance with the General Assembly resolution. The Agency requested that the Council be recognized as a temporary government body representing the Jewish state.

High officials of the U.N. Secretariat told a press conference today that there was no conflict on this phase of implementing the partition decision between the Palestine Commission and the Mandatory Power. They revealed that negotiations at now in progress for the transfer of some British arms in Palestine to the commission.

The U.N. Trusteeship Council today completed its first check of the charter for the Jerusalem Government under the United Nations. In accordance with amendment the U.N. Governor need not consult the Jerusalem legislature on international policy.