Report Israeli Delegation at U.N. Warned by Russians Not to Yield to Western Pressure

Members of the Soviet delegation to the U.N. General Assembly, in confidential talks with Israeli representatives here, have inferred that if Israel yields to western pressure and accepts the Bernadotte recommendations as a basis for peace negotiations, the Soviet Union will withdraw its support from the Jewish state, it was reported here today in well-informed quarters.

This disclosure came following a bitter denunciation of the Western powers by Andrei Vishinsky, deputy Soviet Foreign Minister, for “sabotaging” the previous U.N. decision on Palestine. “Influential members of the United Nations,” he charged, “are using their authority not to implement the (General Assembly’s recommendations, but on the contrary to put into effect measures which are fundamentally contradictory to these recommendations.”

Vishinsky charged that the Security Council, “by its failure to carry out the General Assembly’s Nov. 29 partition decision, “pushed the Arabs and the Jews down the read to war.”

British delegation members have approached Greek envoys to the U.N. with a request that they support speedy Assembly action on Count Bernadotte’s plan.It was learned today that the head of the Greek delegation promised the British that he would try to obtain approval from his government in behalf of Bernadotte’s recommendations, despite the Greeks’ consistently pro-Arab attitude.

(Reynolds News, in London, quoted a Paris correspondent today as declaring that a sensation occurred in the U.N. after it was learned that six Arab states are opposed to Transjordan’s U.N. membership application on the grounds that King Abdullah is unwilling to accept the late mediator’s conclusion that Israel is an unutterable fact. “This is the most serious rift in the Arab camp since the Arab League was established, and is having wide repercussions,” the reported.)