U.N. EMERGENCY ACTION ADVISED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22620, 24 April 1948, Page 5

U.N. EMERGENCY ACTION ADVISED

PALESTINE..HEADS TO COME

He said that Britain would cooperate to the fullest of her ability in carrying out any stop-gap measure, subject only to the fixed date, August 1, for the final withdrawal of British troops. Mr. Creech Jones said the partition was unrealistic unless it could be carried out with force. “I don’t think that any proposals for a "definite settlement could be effected unless they are backed by very substantial means of enforcement," he said. "It may result from this necessity that the United Nations will now be obliged to airn at a more modest objective and to use all the practical means at its disposal to prevent developments in Palestine from endangering world peace, without seeking now to arrive at a final solution.” Delegates insisting on the retention of the Assembly’s partition decision had to face squarely and honestly the question - ‘Are their Governments prepared to participate in implementing partition 9 ” Mr Creech Jones added: “I believe it. was the honest and realistic facing of this problem which led the United States to suggest a new line of action in the hope of finding a way out of the

STOPPING WAR IN PALESTINE BRITAIN OPPOSES PARTITION SHARP CHALLENGE TO ADVOCATES (N.Z.P.A. — Reuter—Copyright. I (9.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 23. Britain urged the United Nations today to adopt emergency measures to stop the open warfare in Palestine. The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Arthur Creech Jones told the special Assembly's political committee that there was no time now to reach a permanent solution to the problem.

FULLEST AID PROMISED TO AUGUST 1

appalling dilemma wc are in today. May 15 comes nearer. What is the United Nations going to do about it?” he asked Mr. Creech Jones supported the French proposal for urgent protection of Jerusalem’s peoples and holy places and appealed to other nations to admit more displaced persons. He stated that on the withdrawal of the British, Pales tine would be in danger of being plunged into anarchy and suicidal struggles. , , After the British speech, one delegate said that Mr. Creech Jones had made it clear that Britain was now ready to abandon her neutral position and join the other United Nations members in grappling directly with the Holy Land problem. India reiterated her opposition to partition and expressed her willingness to discuss trusteeship or other emergency measures, provided they were for a short specific period. “The Assembly should consider the United States proposal for a temporary trusteeship as a related measure designed to meet the emergency,” said General A G. L. McNaughton, Canada The Lebanon delegate said the Arab countries would carry out an economic boycott against any Jewish nation. Trusteeship was held acceptable only if it led finally to a unitary nation in Palestine with an Arab majority.