The United Nations Implementation Commission day formulated eleven questions concerning the security situation in Palestine for mission to the British Government. The nature of the questions was kept secret accordance with a British request. No deadline has been set by the Commission a reply, but reasonable haste is expected.
The Commission also formulated 17 questions concerning the discharge of its administrative duties la Palestine prior to the complete withdrawal of the British ?oops. The members of the Commission will now proceed to examine the problems of ?ting up an economic union and a unit to deal with demarcation of the boundaries between the Jewish and Arab states in Palestine.
The Palestine Arab Higher Committee today notified the Commission that it ?s rejecting an invitation to appear before the Commission on a basis of equality ?th the mandatory power and the Jewish Agency. “The Arab Higher Committee is determined to persist in rejecting the partitioning of Palestine and in its refusal recognize the United Nations solution in this respect and anything deriving wherefrom,” the reply said.
(United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie, at a press conference in Paris day, declared that to his knowledge, no “neutral” country has been approached for possible participation in an international armed force for Palestine. Mr. Lie iterated that he may go to Palestine with the Implementation Commission or even earlier, if necessary.)
SHERTOK PRESENTS JEWISH AGENCY VIEWS ON INTERNATIONALIZATION OF JERUSALEM
Moshe Shertok, head of the political department of the Jewish Agency, appeared at a closed meeting of the U.N. working group which is drafting plans for governmental set-up and a constitution for the proposed international city of Jerusalem. He urged, among other things, things, that business enterprises in Jerusalem would have the right to choose registration either in the Jewish or in the Arab ?tats. He also reiterated his request for a speedy appointment of a U.N. governor for the city.
The representative of the Jewish Agency was given a copy of the tort of the confidential draft which the working group has prepared and was asked to submit comments on the text.
Dr. Mordecai Eliash, leader of the Jewish Community of Jerusalem, asked the group to provide for legal recognition of all religious holidays by the Jerusalem administration. Daniel Auster, former mayor of Jerusalem, also testified.
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