If the Council of the League of Nations agrees, an extraordinary session of the League’s Mandates Commission will be held in March to consider the Palestine situation. Recommendations on Palestine will be presented by the Mandates Commission to the Council at its May session if it agrees to the March meeting. Such action would be speedier than any other on a Mandates question in the history of the League.
The decision of the Commission is predicated upon a suggestion from the Council last September that it make a thorough study of the Palestine outbreak in order to give the Council advice on steps to be taken by the League or Great Britain as the mandatory power. This study was not undertaken because the Commission did not have the needed documents, a deficiency which the report of the British Palestine. Inquiry Commission is expected to make up.
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