ARABS DROP DEMAND FOR INDEPENDENT PALESTINE

Chronicle (Levin), 2 May 1947, Page 5

ARABS DROP DEMAND FOR INDEPENDENT PALESTINE

Rccoived Thursdav, 7 p.m. NEW Y()KK, April 30. India today -supportiMl .tlie Jewish ]ilca for a direcf voic-c in the United .Nations debate on Palestine. .Meanwhile the Arab States appear to liave lost the lirst round of their fight for the innnediate eonsideration ot . Palestine 's independence. a count of Jiand.s in the coinnnttee" indicating that ' they will be ontvoted. The Arab1 spokesman, however, expressed deter-j niination to carry the liglil to the fnl! , Assembly. j Paris el Khoury (Syria) addressod", the committee in a more conciliatory j tono after he conferred privafely wilh j the olher Arab delegates during' the. lnncheon recess. He said the Arabs j wmild be willing to postpone the debate, 011 Palestine 's independonee if all immigration to Palestine were stoppod immediately. The Arabs were uot insist-i ing 011 the termination of the British j

maiidate by anv specifie date. Phev I simplv wanted the Assembly to reeom niend' that Britain should prepare to ! give Palestine froedom. If iminigra tion were stopped the Arabs did not object to wai t ing'. The Polish spokesman told reporters i that Polaiid would move .a t'ormal reso ; lution that the Jewish Agency _ toi ! Pulest ine be recognised as the ollicia ! Jewish representative and be given a , voice at the Assembly's debate. Both .Mr. Herslud Johnson f I'nited States) and Sir Alexander I'adogan (Britain told the steering committee that th Arab proposal would moan a debate without a decision and would be a pooi eonipromi.se. A later message states that the Arab States dropped their deinand that the (xeneral Assembly consider now the in^ dependence of 'Palestine. Maliffioud Ilassan Pasha (Egvpt), aetifig as spokesman for flve Arab States, said the decision had been made in view ot appeals that had been made and sympathv shown for the Arab cause.