The Consular Truce Commission met here yesterday in a routine session. Although the exact nature of the meeting is not known, it is believed that the members discussed the problem of obtaining housing and other facilities for the members of the U.N. Palestine Conciliation Commission who are due to open their headquarters here next week.
Jean Nieuwenhuys, chairman: of the Truce commission, refused to comment today on a suggestion by acting mediator Dr. Ralph J. Bunche to the Security Council that it abandon all mediation and truce services of his office and that of the truce commission and turn over all authority and responsibility to the new Conciliation Commission. Nieuwenhuys said that he had no information concerning Dr. Bunche’s suggestion.
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