The United States, the Soviet Union and France ?ay agreed that a threat to the peace exists in Palestine because of the armed inva### of Arabs from neighboring countries. The Big Three also agreed that the Security Council should ask the parties responsible for this invasion to withdraw their invading ###ces at once.
Full agreement of the Big Four on presenting a report to this effect to the security Council could not be reached in the morning because China insisted on a broad-condemnation to include Arabs and Jews within Palestine. Dr. T.F. Tsiang, the ##ense representative at the Big Four consultations on Palestine, argued that the ###dings establish that elements within Palestine are also responsible for the threat peace there.Since the Big Three could not accept the Chinese modification, they decided to ?er their report to the Security Council which was to have been submitted today. At ?rief afternoon session of the Council, U.S. delegate Warren Austin merely reported at the Big Powers require more time to reach an agreement on the result of their consultations on Palestine. The Council thereupon adjourned till Friday.
ARAB DELEGATE URGES COUNCIL TO ABROGATE PARTITION “AT ALL COSTS”
The main speaker at today’s Council session was Camille Chamoun, the Lebanese delegate, who appealed to the Council to “stop at all costs” the implementation of the general Assembly’s partition decision which, he said, was “illogical, unjust, and con{SPAN}###ry{/SPAN} to the principles of the U.N. Charter.”
He accused the Zionists of attempting to throw the United States “into a wild ###litary adventure with all its tragic consequences.” The Zionists, he continued, #ile appealing to the Council to hasten the formation of an international armed force insure partition, had asked the United States for an “American expeditionary force” ##d the lifting of the embargo on arms shipments. Referring to U.S. “economic and commercial transactions” in the Middle East, Chamoun warned that the friendship between the U.S. and the Arab nations and “real cultural cooperation” were “completely jeopardized because Zionist pressure bas driven the American Administration to follow the ###ne it has taken.”Faris el Khouri of Syria made a brief statement to the effect that the Arab states would not interfere in any fighting in Palestine as long as there was no foreign armed force on Palestine soil.
In attendance at the Council meeting was capacity crowd of spectators–newsmen and visitor–demonstrating once again the deep interest of the public in the future of Palestine.
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