Warning against a “hasty decision” which may complicate “the tragic problem” of Palestine, the Polish delegate on the U.N. Security Council’s membership committee asked that Transjordan’s application for membership be postponed for one year.
Pointing out that the Polish Government does not consider that Transjordan is independent either de jura or de facto, the delegate stated that Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, himself, tied the Transjordan and Palestine issues together in his announcement of the former’s independence, which also called for postponement of consideration of the Palestine case until the report of the Anglo-American inquiry committee had been received. He declared that postponement of Transjordan’s application would benefit all the United Nations.
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