Commission Discusses the Establishment of Provisional Jewish Govt. with Shertok

The bogging down of the Big Powers consultations on Palestine did not prevent the U.N. Palestine Commission today from conference with Moshe Shertok, Jewish Agency representative, on the establishment of a Jew-Provisional Council of Government by April 1, as provided by the partition ##sion of the General Assembly.

The Commission is undeterred by the feeling that the events of the past 24 hours have weakened faith that the United Nations will be able to take any strong ##on of its own in Palestine. This feeling developed after France reneged last ##t from the position it took earlier that the present situation in Palestine confutes a threat to peace.

ARAB COUNTRIES SAY TRUCE IS POSSIBLE IF PARTITION IS NOT ENFORCED

A statement released today by the Jewish Agency takes issue with the declare-on made yesterday at the Security Council by Syria’s delegate Faris el Khouri that ## Arab states bore not intervened in the Palestine fighting. Emphasizing that this ?claration “does not square with the facts,” the Agency charged that six Arab regiment which have taken up positions in Palestine are under command of three officers from Syria and three from Iraq. “There is documentary evidence that recruiting ##es on openly and publicly in Syria, officially organized by the Syrian Ministry of ?fense,” the Agency statement said.

The Jewish Agency also ridiculed the address of the Lebanese delegate yesterday at the Security Council in which he again brought forward his proposal for establishing Palestine as a federal state with guaranteed rights for minorities. “Development in Lebanon discredit its spokesman,” the Jewish Agency statement declared. “As ## all other Arab countries, Jews in Lebanon are now the victims of open persecution.”