U.N. Security Council May Invite Jewish Agency to Its Discussions on Palestine

U.N. Secretary-General Tyrgve Lie today told a press conference that he had not transmitted to the Security Council the Jewish Agency charges of Arab aggression in Palestine. The Agency called on tie to state this action on the advice of the U.K. Palestine Commission.

The Security Council has the right to invite the Jewish Agency representative to participate in the hearing on Palestine next week, U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Arkady Sobelev said at the same press conference.

Lie indicated that he is considering making a personal statement before the Security Council on Palestine, should this be necessary. He denied that he had conferred with President Truman on Palestine, but admitted having had talks on Palestine with British Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech-Jones and with Senator Warren R. Austin, head of the American delegation at the United Nations. Both talks, he said, are confidential.

The Secretary-General announced that Pablo Accurate will head the advance party of six which the Palestine Commission is sending this week to Jerusalem. He also announced that the Security Council will meet in Paris together with the General Assembly, at the next regular session. This would assure close link of the ‘two organs most vitally interested in the outcome of the partition plan, It was pointed out.

IRAQ DELEGATE ATTACKS U.S. POLICY ON PALESTINE AT TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL

A severs attack on the United States policy with regard to Palestine was made today by the Iraqi representative Avni khalidi at a session of the Trusteeship Council at which the report on an internationalized Jerusalem was taken up for consideration. Khalidi walked out on the meeting when the Council took up the report.

Charging that the Palestine partition plan “added Palestine to other troubled spots of the world,” the Iraqi delegate declared that “the United States and the followers, by insisting on the partition plan, incited an armed conflict which politically would lead to world war.” Speaking of the creation of the free city of Jerusalem, he stated that, economically and politically, it was impossible to #### the city from the rest of Palestine.