U.N.O. UNCERTAIN OF ITS NEXT MOVE

Grey River Argus, 23 April 1948, Page 5

U.N.O. UNCERTAIN OF ITS NEXT MOVE

(Rec. 9.40) 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 Holyland, said Mr Warren Austin (United States), in the U.N.O. Security Council to-night. He said the council should determine whether any specific steps had been taken bv Jews, Arabs or the British administration regarding the truce ordered on April 17. . The council did not object to the proposal, and the president, Doctor Alfonso Lopez (Colombia) called a meeting for Friday. The Jewish Agency submitted to the UN.O. General Assembly members to-dav a 15-page printed memorandum attacking the United States proposal for a Palestine trusteeship, describing it as “flagrantly out of accord with general principles and current realities of the Palestine situation.”

Iraq Charges Against

New Zealand Denied

(Eec. 10.0) NEW YORK, April 22. The Trusteeship Council to-day decided to ask the special General Assembly for further instructions giving final approval to the draft statute of Jerusalem. An Australian motion, calling for a further meeting on April 28 —a day before the present deadline for approving the draft —even if the Assembly failed to give further instructions was defeated. The Iraq delegate, Awni Khalidy, made a charge to-day that “there is a group of countries bent on partition, by hook or by crook.” Sir Carl Berendsen (New Zealand) replied to Khalidy: "I have never been a member of an underground group, nor has any member of the New Zealand Government. We do cur duty, not by hook or by crook, but in the open light of day.” Mr Forsyth (Australia) denied that Australia was a member of any group. He said Australia merely wanted to see the recommendation of the General Assembly on partition carried out. AUSTRALIA FOR PARTITION (Rec. 11.401 CANBERRA, April 22 The Minister of External Affairs. Dr Evatt, answering a question in the House of Representatives to-day . on Australia’s opposition to the United States Trusteeship proposals for Palestine, said: “The attitude of the Australian delegation at New York is that the United Nations Assembly decision of only a few months ago should

not be set aside, unless there are new facts to be submitted to the Assembly, and certainly not because there, is violence. Simply because America has changed her attitude,, it imposes no obligation on Australia, New Zealand or any other” country to follow her ” Dr Evatt added that Australia’s views on Palestine partition were the same as those expressed yesterday bv the New Zealand delegate, Sir C. Berendsen.