In one of the shortest meetings on records, the United Nations Security Council today deferred making a decision on how immigration and arms shipments to Palestine shall be controlled, leaving that crucial matter to the discretion of Count Folke Bernadotte, U.N. mediator, who is now in Transjordan. The Council then adjourned until Monday.
That decision, taken without vote at the suggestion of Alexandre Parodi, of France, won the concurrence of Syria’s Feris el Khoury, Council President for June.
Parodi intervened after Jamal el Huesseini, of the Arab Higher Committee, and Aubrey Eban, of the Jewish Agency, had enlarged on the reservations attached by both sides to their acceptance of the Council’s latest cease-fire appeal.
Such statements, Parodi declared, are “out of season” at this time and tend to jeopardize the slim hope that a real working truce may result from the mediator’s intervention. Count Bernadotte is on the scene and in constant consultation with both sides, he added. The Council should leave it to him to interpret the truce resolution of May 29 in terms of concrete control measures, he suggested.
(The State Department revealed that it has asked the Army, Navy and Air Force Departments to name a total of 21 high U.S. officers to act as truce observers for the United Nations in Palestine. The move was taken in anticipation of a request from the U.N. to be prepared to carry out promptly whatever truce enforcement duties may be assigned to this government by the Security Council.)
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