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Fureign Office Says Britain Has Reached No Decision on Make-up of U.N. Probe Committee

April 20, 1947
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The British Government has not reached any decision on whether it will favor exclusion of members of the Big Five and also the Arab states from the committee to be appointed by the special U.N. General Assembly on palestine, a spokesman said today. He denied press reports that the British delegation at Lake Success had decided to propose that none of the interested parties be represented.

A report from Bagdad today says that at the meeting of the Arab Foreign Ministers, which concluded in Damascus yesterday, a secret resolution was adopted order which Britain would be invited to set up military installations in the Middle ast countries, if she succeeds in obtaining a pro-Arab solution of the Palestine problem at the United Nations.

Meanwhile, the Iraqi Parliament voted to inform England and the United States that it was ready to sign military and economic agreements with Iran and Turkey in an endeavor to establish a “Middle Eastern Bloc” on the condition that the United Nations solve the Palestine problem in a manner favorable to the Arabs, At the same ##, the Parliament approved the designation of Foreign Minister Fadhil Jamali as ## representative at the special session of the U.N. on Palestine.

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