HOLY LAND CONTROL
U.N. COMMISSION’S TASK NEED FOR JOINT FORCE LONDON, Feb. 24. Emphasising that Sunday’s tragic events in Jerusalem further strengthen United Nations’ Palestine Commission’s plea for the organisaton of an international force to support its forthcoming administration of the Holy Land, the Times in a leader admits that it will not be easy to provide such a force. It points out that the discussions due to begin today in the Security Council may well turn upon the decision of ths United States either to furnish or to withold effective aid. This decision, the Times says, is complicated by domestic considerations as well as by the unhappy differences among the permanent members of the council, but an international force must somehow be created before May 15, (when the British mandate expires) if Palestine is not to lapse into anarchy
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22572, 27 February 1948, Page 5
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