Powers Call on Jews and Arabs in Palestine to Establish Truce; Arab Answer Due Today

An effort to establish an armistice in Palestine between the Jews and the Arabs was made today by the Big Powers in a call for a office addressed to the Palestine Arab Higher Committee, asking whether the Arab body could be prepared to enter into the necessary arrangements to bring, about an effected truce in Palestine.” The Arab reply is expected tomorrow.

A similar message will be delivered to the Jewish Agency by U.N. Secretary- ##aral Trygve Lie, while the president of the Security Council was asked by the Big ##wers to address an inquiry to the governments of the Arab countries neighboring on Palestine asking them to what extent they would be ready to participate in such a ##ce.The Security Council, which was to resume its session on Palestine today, has the meantime postponed its meeting until tomorrow afternoon when the Big Powers ##ll report the results of their deliberations with the representatives of the Jewish agency and the Arab Higher Committee. Soviet Representative Andrei Gromyko did not ##pin in the call for the truce.

JEWS READY TO ACCEPT TRUCE IF BACKED BY U.N.; ARABS AGAIN REJECT PARTITION

A Jewish Agency spokesman indicated that the Jews would be prepared to accept truce providing: first, that the Arabs show good faith, second, that the truce is Attacked by United Nations force or threat of force; and, third, that steps be taken to {SPAN}##emove{/SPAN} the 7,000 Arab terrorists who infiltrated Palestine from neighboring countries.

The call for a truce was issued following consultations this morning between the representatives of the United States, China and France, and Isa Nakhleh, representative of the Arab Higher Committee, Gromyko participated in the talks only as by-stander, asking no questions. To the questions asked by Senator Warren Austin and other Big Power U.N. delegates the Arab representative read a prepared statement declaring that the Higher Committee rejects any discussions which involve partition.

“The Arab Higher Committee, “the statement said, “wishes to reiterate its rejection of any solutions based on partition in any form including creation of a separates provisional or permanent administration for the city of Jerusalem.The Committee also wishes to emphasize that the only solution compatible with the ideals of the United Nations Charter and t wish would guarantee peace and security in Palestine is the formation of one independent state for the whole of Palestine whose constitution would be based on democratic principles and which would include adequate safeguards for minorities and the safety of the Holy Places.”

It was officially indicated today that the Big Four are nearing an accord in their views regarding the recommendations which they are to submit to the security Council for action in Palestine. Efforts were made by the representative of the U.S., ##a and France to Impress Gromyko with the necessity for submitting a Joint report the Big Four deliberations rather than a majority and minority report.

Negotiations on this subject will continue tomorrow morning prior to the scheduled session of the Council. In them meantime, it was agreed that no impression to be given by any of the participating powers that the Council wishes to avoid ##ion on Palestine.

Whether the Council will actually meet tomorrow on Palestine depends largely whether the Arab reply to the request for a truce is received in time to be re-##ted to the meeting. Otherwise it is possible that the Council may either postpone meeting again or hold a brief session at which the Big Powers will merely report ##t they are in the midst of negotiations with the Arabs and Jews for an armistice either case it will mean that the Palestine discussions will he further delayed ##ce the Council starts discussing Czechoslovakia on Wednesday.

PARTITION IMPOSSIBLE UNLESS PEACE IS RESTORED, PALESTINE COMMISSION SAYS

Meanwhile, the U.N. Palestine Commission today completed its second monthly report for submission tomorrow to the Security Council in which it reiterates that present indications point to the inescapable conclusion that when the Mandate is {SPAN}##malliated, Palestine Is likely to suffer severely from administrative chaos and wide-##ead strife and bloodshed.” The report emphasizes that “in view of the policy of ##e Mandatory Power not to cooperate in the implementation of the plan adopted by the general Assembly a satisfactory coordination of the plans of the Commission with those ## the Mandatory Power in many vital aspects is precluded.”{/SPAN}This situation, the report points out, leaves little hope for the achievement {SPAN}##{/SPAN} continuity in administrative services and for an orderly transfer of authority to the Commission upon the termination of the Mandate. “Information concerning present conditions in Palestine received by the Commission from the advance party of the Secretariat in Jerusalem fully confirms the conclusions set forth in the Commission’s first special report on security problems and further emphasizes that unless security {SPAN}##s{/SPAN} restored in Palestine the implementation of the resolution of the General Assembly will not he possible,” the report declares.

It adds that the Commission cannot, set up an Arab Provisional Council of Government because of Arab resistance. It can establish a Jewish Provisional Council and ##as in fact taken some preliminary steps toward the establishment of such a Council ##ut, it warns, the Council “will not he able to carry out its functions in the sense of the partition plan prior to the termination of the Mandate.” The Commission also describes as “unsatisfactory” the British stand against the preparatory steps outlined by the Commission for the establishment of armed militia.