Arabs Given Till Today To Join Jews In A Truce

Wanganui Chronicle, 26 May 1948, Page 5

Arabs Given Till Today To Join Jews In A Truce

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS THEIR TIME BY FORTY-EIGHT HOURS Received 7.55 p.m. NEW YORK May 24 The Security Council tonight gave the Arab States an extra 48 hours to decide whether to join the Jews in the Palestine truce, or to risk the possibility of strong United Nations action. The Council gave the Arabs until 4 p.m. G.M.T., on Wednesday, to answer. . Egypt and Syria requested a delay in the truce. Mr. Gromyko (Russia) suggested that the Arabs order their armies to cease fighting, and then confer. Faris el Khoury (Syria) had earlier reported that the Arab nations were consulting regarding the truce. The Security Council began to debate on Palestine early in the evening after spending four hours debating and voiing on the Czechoslovakian issue. The “Herald-Tribune’s” Lake Success correspondent says the indications are that the Arab delay will neither help nor hinder the slim chance of success for the Security Council’s peace plea. Arab diplomats said privately | their project of a Hol Land that their agreement to cease fire' . , ... ~ , would probably be made on con- State- This is a condition which dition that the Jews abandoned the Jews will not accept.