The United Nations Palestine Conciliation Commission met in private session again today to consider the Israel proposal of last week that the Commission arrange for direct negotiations between Israel and the Arab states. No details of the discussions were released.
The Commission will meet again on the same problem tomorrow. On Monday it will hold separate meetings with representatives of Israel and the four Arab states on its borders. Ely Eliot Palmer, new American member on the Commission, sat in on its discussions for the first time today.
In the Social, Cultural and Humanitarian Committee, Israel delegate Abraham Katznelson indorsed a proposal by Secretary-General Trygve Lie that a High Commissioner be appointed to resettle or care for the “hard-core cases” of DP’s whom the I.R.O. has been unable to resettle. He also proposed that a council consisting of the states most concerned be elected to advise the High Commissioner.
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