Israel today formally requested the United Nations Security Council to place on its agenda a “complaint of aggression by Syria.” The request was made in a letter received this morning by the President of the Security Council from permanent Israeli delegate Abba Eban.
The Council president also received this morning a long detailed cable from Israel Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett describing the military situation to date. A third communication came from Col. Bennet de Ridder, acting chairman of the Syrian-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission. A Security Council meeting on the Syrian-Israeli conflict is scheduled for tomorrow.
In requesting the meeting of the Council “with the utmost urgency,” to put Israel’s complaint of aggression on its agenda, Mr. Eban declared in his note that “my government now has conclusive proof of the operations of Syrian forces on Israel territory and also holds Syria responsible for the irregular forces which have taken up positions in the demilitarized zones and beyond.”
(The New York Herald-Tribune in an editorial today supports Israel’s request for prompt action on the part of the United Nations to halt the Syrian incursions. “The present fighting requires immediate and effective intervention by the U.N. lest both parties set the clock back two years with a costly and needless war,” the editorial says. An editorial in the New York Post demands that “there should be clear U.N. condemnation of the new Syrian aggressions before the fever spreads.”)
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