U.N. CALL IGNORED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22619, 23 April 1948, Page 5

U.N. CALL IGNORED

HOLY LAND TRUCE COUNCIL URGED TO ACT N.Z. RESENTS IRAQ CHARGE (11 a.m.) NEW YORK. April 21. Recent events in Palestine required the council to decide immediately what course it should follow as a result of its unheeded call for a truce in the Holy Land, said Mr. Warren Austin, United States, in the Security Council last night. He said the council should determine whether any specific steps had been taken by the Jews, Arabs or the British administration regarding the truce ordered on April 17.

The council did not obiect to the proposal and the president, Dr. Alfonso Lopez, Colombia, called a meeting for Friday.

The Jewish Agency submitted to members oi the General Assembly a 15-page printed memorandum attacking the United States proposal for a Palestine trusteeship, describing it as “flagrantly out of accord with the general principles and current realities of the Palestine situation.”

The Trusteeship Council yesterday decided to ask the General Assembly for further instructions before giving its final approval to the draft statute of Jerusalem.

j' An Australian motion calling for a .further meeting on April 28—the day before the present deadline for approving the draft—even Jf the assembly failed to give further instructions, was defeated.

~' c The Iraqi delegate, Awni Khalidy, ‘■niade the charge that ‘‘there is a group Of countries bent on partition, by hook "or by crook.”

y Sir Carl Berendsen. New Zealand, replied: “I have never been a member of an underground group nor has any member of the New Zealand Government. We do our duty, not by hook or by crook, but in the open light of day. Mr. Forsyth, Australia, denied that Australian was a member of any group He said that Australia merely wanted to see the recommendation of the General Assembly on partition carried out.