Security Council May Meet in Special Session to Consider New Arab Invasion of Palestine

After consultation yesterday and today with members of the Security Council, Council president Alexandre Parodi of France was today considering calling a special session of the body to consider the latest developments in the Palestine situation and Moshe Shertok’s telegraphed appeal for U.N. intervention to prevent largo-scale bloodshed.

Mean while, in the light of the developments of the past few days there is developing in United Nations circles the feeling that trusteeship is not a solution which can be imposed on Palestine immediately and that another solution is needed to cope with the seriously deteriorating situation.

Shertok’s telegram pointed to the Syro-Lebanese invasion of northeastern Palestine and to reports of projected invasiona by Egypt on the south and Iraqi and Transjordan forces from Transjordan. “Jewish defense forces are determined to resist this new phase of the invasion at all costs,” the message said, adding: “Unless the Security Council intervenes immediately and effectively to arrest the invasion in its initial stages a war situation is inevitable with large-scale bloodshed and destruction leading to a major conflagration with incalculable consequences.”

In a continuing atmosphere of unreality the Political Committee of the U.N. Special Assembly mat again yesterday without moving any closer to a decisive stage of accepting or rejecting Palestine trusteeship. Major Aubrey Eban of the Jewish Agency reminded the delegates that the Palestine Mandate ends two weeks from today while the U.N. has not yet begun to consider hew trusteeship would be enforced in the light of outright Jewish rejection and fierce Arab objections to the main points of the U.S. working paper–immigration and land purchase citizenship and virtually dictatorial powers to be vested in a Governor-General.