U.N. Circles Believe Britain Will Comply with Transjordan Request for Patrol Units

It was taken for granted at U.N. headquarters today that Britain would send more troop reinforcements to Aqaba at the formal request of Transjordan, although the British delegation indicated that London would not move before acting mediator Dr. Ralph J. Bunche submits his comprehensive report on the tangled situation there.

In order to forestall inevitable Israeli charges that the truce has been violated, however, the United Kingdom delegation is suggesting to the Foreign Office in London that United Nations military observers should accompany the Army units in their patrols northward from the Red Sea port to the southern tip of the Dead Sea. By arranging for U.N. scrutiny in advance, the delegation hopes to make certain that the natives behind these troop movements will not be misunderstood, a British representative here declared.

Considerable anxiety is felt at Lake Success, nevertheless, about the ultimate effect of Britain’s increasing involvements in the Palestine situation. While slow progress has been recorded thus far in the armistice negotiations with Transjordan, the advent of British troops on the Negev frontier, within striking distance of Israeli settlements scattered through the desert and of military positions in the key Beersheba area .would, it is thought here, have a negative effect.